Claim: The South Australian  School of Design was an art school in the earliest days of the City of Adelaide; Gladys Reynell joined there after leaving her studies in medicine.
Evidence: The South Australian School of Design was an art school in the earliest days of the City of Adelaide, the progenitor of the South Australian School of Arts, a department of the University of South Australia. Gladys Reynell initially studied medicine at the University of Adelaide but left to study art. By 1903, she had joined the School of Design's Art Club in Adelaide and that same year she exhibited work at the South Australian Society of Arts' annual show.