Lonnie Rees  1910-90

Lonnie Rees (Mrs. Terry Shand, Jr.). 1910-90.  San Antonio. Painter, illustrator, teacher.
    Rees was born in San Antonio.  She studied at the Art Students League of New York and the National Academy of Design, New York (1934-37), and privately with Robert Brackman (1936-38).  Her Other instructors included Leon Kroll and Harry Anthony De Young.  Ress studied and worked five summers  at facilities in Mexico,  West Texas, and the Ozark Mountains.  Subsequently she taught portrait painting, life drawing, and still-life painting at the San Antonio Art Institute (1947-54).  Rees was primarily a portrait painter but furnished illustrations for various publications, including  Walter Prescott Webb's Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense (Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin,1935).  Her husband, Terry Shand, Jr., was also a painter. Rees died in San Antonio.
    Exhibitions:  San Antonio Local Artists Annual Exhibition (1930-32, 1934, 1937-49); Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio (1936 and 1939 one-woman); Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artist, New York (1937);  Annual Southeast Texas Artists Exhibition, Houston (1937 honorable mention,1938-39); Allied Artists of America, New York (1937); Austin Woman's Club (1938); Southern States Art League Annual Exhibition (1938-40);  Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York (1938,1942); Bright Shawl Gallery, San Antonio (1939,1943, and 1950 one-woman); Texas General Exhibition (1940 award, 1943-46); Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, Austin (1940 one-woman); Texas-Oklahoma General Exhibition (1941); Directions in American Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (1941); San Antonio Art League ((1947); River Art Group, San Antonio (1948-50);  Texas Painting and Sculpture Annual Exhibition (1949, 1951);  National Art Exhibition, Miami (1952 award).