Gladys Milligan

Gladys Milligan (1892 — 1973) was an American painter.

Born in LaRue, Ohio, McMillan attended the Western College for Women and Westminster College in Pennsylvania. She next studied below George Luks and Hans Hofmann and at the Pratt Institute previously traveling to Paris for new instruction taking into account André Lhote and at the Fontainebleau School of Art. She is known to have been swift in Washington, D.C. at least as in advance as 1931, continuing her endeavors there until at least 1967. Beginning in 1931, for greater than twenty years she taught painting and art records at the National Cathedral School, from which she retired in 1955. Long a believer of the Arts Club of Washington, she had one-woman shows there in 1938 and 1947. Other solo shows occurred at George Washington University and at the Studio Gallery in New York City. She as well as belonged to the Society of Washington Artists, at whose 1932 exhibition she presented an oil titled Taos, New Mexico, and th Washington Water Color Club, and she exhibited later than both the National Association of Women Artists and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors during her career. An article which she penned approximately the Society of Washington Artists was published in 1963 by the Columbia Historical Society. Milligan eventually moved to Tryon, North Carolina to link the artists' colony there. She died in Tryon; her body was returned to Ohio for burial, and rests in the Bellefontaine City Cemetery in Bellefontaine.

Milligan worked in oil, pastel, and watercolor during her career, producing landscapes, portraits, and nevertheless lifes. A 1948 oil-on-canvas still-life is currently owned by the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. A 1972 portrait of Abby Merchant, an acquaintance from the Tryon artists' colony, is currently in the Polk County Historical Museum in Tryon. She is after that represented in the accretion of the New Mexico Museum of Art.