Reynold Weidenaar
The "Dutch Master of Grand Rapids" recorded the building of the Mackinac Bridge in mezzotint.
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Weidenaar was born in Grand Rapids, studied at the Kendall School and the Kansas City Art Institute with Thomas Hart Benton, and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1944.
He taught at Kendall from 1956 to 1975 and painted frescoes at LaGrave Christian Reformed Church. His mezzotints of the Mackinac Bridge under construction are among his best-known works. The Grand Rapids Art Museum held his retrospective in 1983.