About Charles Henry Reynolds

  • Biography

    The following is excerpted from writing by W. T. Leviness, Santa Fe Author and Journalist. It was written before the artist's death in 1963.

    A Taos, New Mexico artist, Charles Reynolds was born in Kiowa, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1902. He attended both Oklahoma and Tulsa University, and it was the latter that he met and married Ruth Weaver. The Reynolds have three children and eight grandchildren.

    The artist began painting in 1925, and except for a short period at the Chicago Art Institute and a brief study with John Elliot Jenkins, he is self-taught.

    The Reynolds family discovered Taos in 1932, and after fourteen years of vacationing there, they moved out permanently." I wanted to live there and associate wit...

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