Edward Glannon

For more than sixty years, Edward Glannon painted the American land. “I grew up in a deep and narrow Pennsylvania valley,” Glannon wrote in the journal he maintained from the time he was a young man, “and I learned to love the poetry of the earth and the music of landscapes. It has motivated me all my life.”

Glannon began experimenting with watercolor in his late forties. He came to love the medium, and over the succeeding years he painted watercolors depicting all aspects of the American landscape. He painted oils from the beginning of his career. He cared deeply about the craft of oil painting. He ground his own colors, painted on panels he built himself, and constructed and carved frames to match individual paintings. His oils reflect his reverence for the American land – and the skies above it. Glannon took up lithography in his sixties. He bought a press, and etched and printed all editions himself in his studio. His lithographs, like his oils and watercolors, depict all areas of the country and reflect his enduring reverence for the American landscape.

SOURCE - https://edwardglannon.com/ (Sept 2025)