George S. Rennie III (American 1940 - 2022) Mid-Century Modern Mixed Media Construction Abstract Drip Painting Circa 1965

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George S. Rennie III (American 1940 - 2022) Mid-Century Modern mixed media construction - abstract drip painting circa 1965. Executed … Read more George S. Rennie III (American 1940 - 2022) Mid-Century Modern mixed media construction - abstract drip painting circa 1965. Executed on a thick and heavy wood board. May hang on the wall or rest on a table as a sculpture. Measures 14 5/8" x 9 3/8" x 1 7/8" thick. Good condition.

George Rennie was educated at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and spent his professional career at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale. As a teenager, George painted his entire bedroom in rows of hieroglyphics that indicated the names of various friends and family members who visited the house. At Yale, Rennie sculpted dinosaur bones including the giant squid which hung from the ceiling at the Peabody Museum. In 1965, Rennie spent a month touring cathedrals in the Soviet Union. For many years he worked as a talented and prolific painter and sculptor, painting traditional icons for Orthodox and Byzantine churches.

As a philanthropist, Rennie endowed the Rennie-Rilling Museum of Earth Sciences at his alma mater, Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. See less