American, 1909 - 1970
Greenwood studied at the Art Students League, New York, and at the Académie Collarosi, Paris. She early established her life-long connection with the artists' community of Woodstock, New York. A summer visitor from the 1920s, she was fourteen years of age when she first exhibited with the Woodstock Artists Association; she would later become a life member of the Association. She also early began what would become a life-long pattern of making extended stays in exotic locales, when in 1932 she went to Mexico. Initially drawn there by an admiration for the work of Diego Rivera and Jos‚ Orozco, after a year of study, she remained to carry out the commissions of the Mexican government for gigantic murals at the University of San Nicolas Hidalgo in Morelia, and the Rodriguez Civic Center, Mexico City. Returning to America in 1936, she spent much of the next four years in executing murals under the auspices of the federal arts projects in housing projects in Camden and in Red Hook, New Jersey; and in the Crossville, Tennessee post office.
Following the Second World War, Greenwood resumed her world travels, making extended stays in India, China, North Africa, Europe, the West Indies, and the American Southwest. The ethnic types encountered in her travels where the principal subjects of the figure paintings and lithographs executed in her New York and Woodstock studios.
Mural painting continued a major interest. While a visiting professor of fine arts at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for the 1954-55 academic year, Greenwood executed a mural for the University Center. In the summer of 1965, as part of the Sycracuse (New York) University Art School program of mural commissions carried out with the participation of students, she created Tribute to Woman, installed in the rotunda of Slocum Hall.
Among Greenwood's many awards were the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Second Prize, 1944; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Lippincott prize, 1951; and an Altman prize in the Academy annual exhibition, 1952. She was elected to a three-year term on the Academy Council in 1966.
Following the Second World War, Greenwood resumed her world travels, making extended stays in India, China, North Africa, Europe, the West Indies, and the American Southwest. The ethnic types encountered in her travels where the principal subjects of the figure paintings and lithographs executed in her New York and Woodstock studios.
Mural painting continued a major interest. While a visiting professor of fine arts at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for the 1954-55 academic year, Greenwood executed a mural for the University Center. In the summer of 1965, as part of the Sycracuse (New York) University Art School program of mural commissions carried out with the participation of students, she created Tribute to Woman, installed in the rotunda of Slocum Hall.
Among Greenwood's many awards were the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Second Prize, 1944; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Lippincott prize, 1951; and an Altman prize in the Academy annual exhibition, 1952. She was elected to a three-year term on the Academy Council in 1966.
