Donald Glenn Renner was an American artist, whose most notable works include 32 ceiling paintings on the Ft. Lauderdale Parker Playhouse, a mural size painting for the Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek, a portrait of former Florida Senate President Jim Scott, and a 9 ft (2.7 m) portrait of Don King for his Ft. Lauderdale office.

[4] He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts during high school and subsequent to his service in the Merchant Marines during WWII.

[1] When Renner graduated from high school in 1944, he enlisted in the Merchant Marines on July 25, 1944, traveling through the Mediterranean Middle East, Atlantic, and Pacific theaters until the end of the war.

[10] At Silver Spur Ranch in Gresham, Wisconsin, Donald met Shirley Von Bergen, another Chicagoan.

[17] Before returning to Illinois, Renner bought a VW Beetle to make a family road trip across Europe, stopping in Gibraltar, Germany, Denmark, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and Sweden.

[1] He continued to pursue art in his spare time, having a one-man show of his Spanish paintings at the Palette and Chisel Academy.

The Heart Association commissioned the portrait to give to the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C.[18] Big opportunities opened up for Renner when he became affiliated with the Pheasant Run Lodge and Playhouse in St. Charles for four years.

[19] Celebrities he painted during this time included James Mac Arthur, Robert Wagner, Edward Everett Horton, Maureen O'Sullivan, Howard Duff, Alan Young, Linda Darnell, Carolyn Jones, Dan Dailey, Johnny Desmond, and Virginia Graham–who opened her TV show Girl Talk with the portrait.

It was lots of fun, but the plays were always on Sunday nights and while everyone else could sleep late Monday mornings, I would have to trudge wearily off to work half dead..."[16] In the summer of 1969 the family made another move, this time to South Florida.

[8][3] The State also commissioned three portraits for the National Guard that hang in the museum at Camp Blanding in Starke, Florida.

[9][5] A naval executive officer conducted Renner's committal at sea, off the coast of Jacksonville, courtesy of Navy vessel U.S.S.

[28] Often quoted saying that abstract art was "the biggest fraud of the century",[29][16] Renner was deeply committed to realistic portrayals in both his oil and watercolor compositions, saying that a portrait was only complete when the subject, "jump[s] out of the canvas.