Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

318 MILLENNIUM A native of Osaka, Japan, Mitsuno Ishii Reedy began her career in the mid-1970s, painting portraits, still life and landscapes for collectors throughout the United States. Ms. Reedy has studied with notable pastel artists, including Albert Handell and Daniel Greene, and oil painters, including John Howard Sanden and David Leffel. Her works were included in several publications, including The Best of Oil Painting, The Best of Pastels, Floral Inspirations, Portrait Inspirations, The Best of Pastels II and Pastel Artist International Magazine. She was featured in Nichols Hills News, Oklahoma City, in February of 2002, and Focus Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the summer of 1995. Ms. Reedy’s oil portrait of Federal District Judge Wayne Alley recently received recognition in the Portrait Society of America’s 2001 International Portrait Competition held in Chicago, Illinois. Additionally, her commissioned portraits include corporate and civic leaders, college deans, doctors, military officers, and family and children’s portraits. Her portraits of the famous opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti were presented to him in 1982 when Mr. Pavarotti gave the first of several charity concerts. Ms. Reedy also enjoys plein-air paintings, as well as still life paintings and figure studies in oil, pastel and Cente à Conte pencil. She was elected a full member of the Pastel Society of America in 1978, an associate member of the Pastel Society of Japan (Gendai Pastel Kyokai) in 2001, and has been featured in several editions of Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who of American Women. Ms. Reedy has studied at Lagunia Gloria Art Museum School and Elizabeth Ney Museum School in Austin, Texas, Scottsdale Art School in Arizona and Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mitsuno Ishii Reedy Artist, Painter Norman, OK