Margaret Ogden Earwood, Belle Glades. Everglades Cranes, 1944, oil on canvas, 24 by 30 inches. Exhibited, Pepsi Cola Painting of the Year.
Margaret Earwood taught art at Pahokee High School in Belle Glade for many year. Earwood was active in Florida state wide art education, serving as coordinator for an all day workshop of some forty Florida art teachers at Palm Beach High School in 1953 and in 1963 as chairman of the Florida Arts Education Association. The Pensacola News Journal, January 16, 1955, published Margaret Earwood’s moving tribute to Pensacola artist M. J. Runyan: “A tribute to the memory of M. G. Runyan whose recent death in Pensacola left a vacancy which cannot be filled. A pioneer of Pensacola…For sixty odd years Mr. Runyan maintained his artist’s studio for the art world to visit, to receive instruction, inspiration and friendly, helpful criticism. Mr. Runyan was first discovered by this admirer about 1934. When browsing in historical Pensacola one afternoon, I notice his studio slogan, climbed the stairs, and found a smiling, kind, friendly face. Busy at his easel, he looked up, invited me in, and we were friends before I left. Many visits followed for I was a struggling, young artist, trying to get a start. This kind friend took me in, gave me his helpful criticism, saw that my pictures were exhibited, and set me on the right track, as he had so many others.” Education: with Manuel G. Runyan. Membership: Pensacola Art League; Palm Beach Art League; Lake Worth Art League; Florida Federation of Art; Artists Guild of the Palm Beach Art League. Exhibits: Palm Beach Art League, members “five and ten” Christmas exhibit at Norton Gallery, December 1944; Palm Beach Art League 27th Annual, Norton Gallery, March 1945; Palm Beach Art League, Christmas exhibit, Norton Gallery, December 1945, eight decorative bird and flower studies; Society of the Four Arts, tropical design contest, third award, hibiscus; Belle Glade Woman’s Club at Country Club of the Everglades, November 6, 1946, in celebration of National Art Week, one woman exhibit, Florida landscapes, bird and flower paintings; Miami Beach Art Center, 2100 Collins Avenue, all watercolors and etchings exhibit, January-February 1947; Palm Beach Art League 29th Annual Members’ Exhibit, Norton Gallery, March-April 1947; Palm Beach Art League, 30th Annual members exhibit, February-March 1948; Palm Beach Art League 32nd Annual, March 1950; Belle Glade Garden Club Flower Show, March 19-20, 1952, twenty oils and watercolors; Palm Beach Art League, 34th Annual Members’ Exhibit, March 1952; Lake Worth Art League at Strait Museum December 1952; University of Florida second annual Summer Art School, exhibit, July 1953, Coburn Park, Tarpon Springs, first prize; Lake Worth Art League 7th Annual Members Exhibit, watercolor and allied media, March 1955, popular prize for White Glory; Artists Guild of the Palm Beach Art League, Norton Art Gallery, December 1955; Lake Worth Art League, second annual exhibition of abstract and imaginative art, Strait Museum, January 1956; Palm Beach Art League 38th Annual, March 1956; Lake Worth Art League 8th Annual Members’ exhibit of watercolor and allied media section, March 1956; Lake Worth Art League, Abstract and Imaginative Art Exhibit, January 1957, Boat Yard; Lake Worth Art League 10th Annual, March 1958.
