Laura Marie Greenwood

Laura Marie Greenwood (1897–1951) was an American painter of portraits and still lifes. She worked gone oils, watercolors and pastels. Greenwood furthermore lectured on art chronicles and taught fine art.

Greenwood was born in 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She studied at Temple University, La France Art Institute, and Moore College of Art and Design where she graduated in 1933. Her studies continued at the Barnes Foundation and like Earle Horter.

She was responsive in Philadelphia and exhibited her take effect in the city at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in New York and Washington, D.C. Greenwood painted portraits, especially of teenager women, floral still lifes, and landscapes. She painted later than oils upon canvas and higher than her career her brush strokes became more clear and expressive. She along with worked in watercolor, and was elected a fanatic of the Philadelphia Watercolour Club and was after that a fanatic of The Plastic Club. Greenwood was gifted in pastels. She made Impressionist and Regionalist works, but was a particularly adventurous Modernist.

Greenwood taught fine art and was a lecturer on American art history.

Greenwood died in Philadelphia on July 25, 1951, at the age of 54. She was buried in the Cedar Hill Cemetery upon July 30. There was an exhibition of her con held in 1987 at the Lagakos-Turak Gallery entitled "Laura M. Greenwood: American Paintings of the 1930s and 40s."