Edward Renouf (artist)

Vincent Renouf died in China from typhoid fever on May 4, 1910, after which his wife brought their three children first to Munich, and then in 1912 to Richmond, New Hampshire (not far from the home of their great-grandfather Rev.

[3][4] Edward Renouf studied at Phillips Andover Academy, from which he graduated (winning three prizes) on June 13, 1924,[5] and then at Harvard College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928.

[8] The following year, Renouf left New York for Mexico in order to study drawing and painting with the muralist Carlos Mérida.

[10] In 1939, the Austrian-born artist Wolfgang Paalen (1905–1959), traveled from Paris to Mexico City to help organize the International Exposition of Surrealism, an exhibition held in January 1940 at the Galería de Arte Mexicano.

From 1942 until 1944, Paalen published and edited the group's journal, called Dyn, selling copies in New York (at the Gotham Book Mart), London and Paris.

[12] In July 1958, when The New York Times announced the marriage of their daughter, the paper described the parents of the bride as "Mr. and Mrs. Edward von Pechmann Renouf of Mexico City and Waldingfield, Washington [Connecticut]."

He welds sculpture out of junk like Stankiewicz...and he makes things that illustrate his memory and fantasy...Edward has developed an almost academic manner, of the best sort, meaning, a kind of morality of openness, as one who has seen enough to become civilized...[13] Having left Mexico in 1959 and settled in Connecticut, Renouf began to actively exhibit his work, mostly in the galleries of New York's art dealers, but also in the annual exhibitions of museums, most notably the Whitney Museum of American Art.

In the 1960s, he was best known for his iron sculpture often made from old farm implements, but by 1971, he began to exhibit a growing collection of abstract drawings and paintings.