GLEN ALLISON RANNEY
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$450 Red Barn and Landscape signed oil on board 14" x 18"
$975 Farm Landscape signed c. 1930s oil on canvas 22" x 28"
$850 Gathering at the Path signed oil on board 20" x 23.75"
$375 Untitled (Sunny Beach) signed watercolor 14.5" x 21"
$975 Farm Trail signed oil on board 22" x 28"
$450 Rocks Grand Marais signed casin 13.75" x 22"
$500 untitled signed oil on board 15.5" x 15.5"
$400 Lake Superior Fishing Boat signed watercolor 14.25" x 21"
$350 Lichen on Rocks, Lake Superior signed watercolor 14" x 20"
$450 untitled landscape signed oil on board 13" x 15"
$350 Waiting for the Postman signed 1946 watercolor 14.5" x 21"
$300 untitled (shoreline scene) signed watercolor 11" x 17"
$725 Rural Landscape signed oil on board 16" x 20"
$350 untitled (road scene) signed watercolor 14" x 18"
$750 River Front Building signed oil on board 16" x 23.5"
$200 untitled (summer lakeshore scene) signed 1942 watercolor 11" x 15"
$175 untitled landscape signed 1939 watercolor 9.75" x 13.75"
$175 Old Green Boat signed watercolor 8.5" x 11.5"
$600 Landscape with Four People signed oil on board 16" x 20"
$800 Arriving at the Bluffs signed oil on canvas 18" x 24"
$1,250 Farm scene with cattle signed Oil on Canvas 28" x 34"
$1,000 woman and farm country landscape signed oil on canvas 22" x 28"
$1,000 Farm and Children signed oil on board 22" x 28"
$500 Grand Marais signed oil on board 12" x 16"
$600 Lake Superior signed c. 1930s oil on canvas 12" x 16"
$625 Farm and Road Scene signed 1941 oil on board 16" x 20"
$1,000 woman reading and sunbathing signed oil on canvas 22" x 28"
SOLD Boats Grand Marais signed casin 13.5" x 21.25"
SOLD Landscape signed ink wash on paper 8" x 10"
SOLD Grain Storage signed 1946 watercolor 14.5" x 21.5"
SOLD Lake Harriet signed 1942 watercolor 10.25 x 13.5"
SOLD Deephaven signed watercolor 10" x 15"
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SOLD Women signed ink wash on paper 8" x 10"
SOLD farm signed oil on canvas 22" x 28"
SOLD Women bathing signed oil on board 11.5" x 18"
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SOLD Lake signed Watercolor
SOLD two women signed oil on canvas 20x24
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Glen Allison Ranney (1896-1959)
Glen Ranney was born in 1896 in Wisconsin and raised in South Dakota. Ranney served in the Medical Corps during World War I and after the war, he studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Art. From there, Ranney traveled to New York City to accept a scholarship at the Art Students League where he worked under George Luks, George Bridgeman and Richard Lahey. Upon his return to Minneapolis, he spent 1923-24 painting with fellow Minnesota artist Cameron Booth at the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota.
Ranney captured the vitality of Midwestern America during the 1920s, 30s and 40s. His paintings are a representation of the rural Midwest, from people working in the fields to a more relaxed and carefree time of picnics, bathing parties and family life. Ranney produced both paintings & lithographs between 1935 and 1943, for the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project in Minnesota. The goal of this governmental program was to employ artists, during the Great Depression, to produce “the first true portrait of America” – a record of the nation’s varied people and places by local artists who knew those subjects best.
During his life, Ranney taught art at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis School of Art, Grand Marais Art Colony and the Walker Art Center.
Although Ranney spent several years enjoying success in the art world of New York City, it was the fields and people of Minnesota that inspired him and gave his paintings strength and vibrancy. His work is reminiscent of Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, being a strong representative of the Midwestern school of artists … and like them, Ranney expressed the robust natural beauty and strength of American Culture.
His work is represented the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; University of Minnesota; U.S. Marine Hospital, Carville, Louisiana; Cape May (New Jersey) Courthouse and can also be found in many private collections.
Glen Ranney passed away in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1959.