Donald Renner

Donald Glenn Renner was an American artist, whose most notable works include 32 ceiling paintings on the Ft. Lauderdale Parker Playhouse, a mural size painting for the Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek, a portrait of former Florida Senate President Jim Scott, and a 9 ft (2.7 m) portrait of Don King for his Ft. Lauderdale office. Renner was born of Danish immigrants in Chicago, Illinois in 1926. He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts during high school and subsequent to his service in the Merchant Marines during WWII. After the war, Renner apprenticed as a dot-etcher lithographer while he studied art under Marilyn Bendell. He died at the age of 87 in Ormond Beach, Florida.