Artist Peggy Reid

A historical marker near Glens Falls City Hall pays tribute to artist Wilhelmina Weber Furlong, who lived, painted and taught art on the upper floors of two Ridge Street buildings.

One of Weber Furlong’s students from the 1950s, noted local artist Peggy Reid, died at age 96 on Wednesday.

Peggy told The Post-Star in 1995, “I guess every time I look at a face, I’m looking at it with the idea of making a painting.”

I am blessed to have a Peggy Reid sketch hanging in my home of the face of the woman I love.

Years before I knew Debbie, she sometimes modeled for Peggy at Reid’s studio.

Peggy gave us the sketch, that she had hung on to for some time, when Debbie and I married in 2004.

I knew Peggy best from our joint membership at Christ Church United Methodist, a church Peggy was devoted to.

When Debbie and I got engaged, and Peggy realized just who the woman I had been writing about in my Post-Star column was, she said to me after service one Sunday,”You will be good for each other.”

For Peggy, art was a life-long passion that she perfected in her adult years.

“I drew my friends when I was a child,” she told The Post-Star in 1998. “My schoolwork has little drawings and profiles of the kids in the class all around the edges.”

Peggy also was a supporter of the arts.

She was a docent at The Hyde Collection art museum for 30 years, and was a trustee some of those years.

She was a charter member and president of the Guild of Adirondack Artists.

Sources: The Post-Star Nov. 7, 1973; Aug. 21, 1989; Nov. 12, 1998; March 2, 1995.