A Portrait of the Artist

Painter as a Window

Although born in Chicago, Glenn Rudderow has lived most of his life in the southern New Jersey communities he captures on canvas. His work reflects his passion for the Delaware Bayshore’s landscape and people.

After graduating from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1976, where he won numerous awards including the coveted Cresson European Traveling Scholarship, Glenn moved to Gandy’s Beach along the Delaware Bay to immerse himself in the wetland environment that was his subject matter. As access to the vast expanses of marshland became more restricted, he moved up the Bay and inland, to Bridgeton, where his vision was drawn to the old farmhouses and farmland that comprise Salem and western Cumberland Counties.

Rudderow has exhibited nationally at venues including: the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; National Academy of Design, NY; the American Watercolor Society, NY; the Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ; the Springfield Art Museum, Missouri; the Sherry French Gallery, NY; the Butler Institute of Art, Ohio; and the John Pence Gallery, San Francisco. His work has received prestigious awards including: the Greenshields Memorial Grant, Montreal; a N.J. State Council on the Arts Fellowship; the American Watercolor Society Award for Excellence; the National Academy of Design Award for Outstanding Portraiture. He taught portrait and life painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1986 to 2002.

His work is represented by the following galleries: Newman-Saunders Galleries, Wayne, Pa; the Troika Gallery, Easton, Md., the Treen Studio and Gallery, Mullica Hill, NJ, and the LaBotega Gallery, Millville, NJ. Rudderow will have a one man exhibit at the Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville, NJ in April 2006.