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Ruth Armer

Ruth Armer (1896 - 1977) was active/lived in California.  Ruth Armer is known for Desert landscape, genre, abstraction.

A painter, educator and lithographer, Ruth Armer was born in San Francisco and spent her career in that city. She attended the California School of Fine Arts, 1914-1915, 1918-1919 and studied in New York at the Art Students League with George Bellows, Robert Henri, and John Sloan. Armer taught at the California School of Fine Arts from 1933 to 1940. Her painting styles ranged from abstract to representational.

Solo Exhibitions:
Vickery, Atkins & Torrey, 1922
Cleveland Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Art, 1936, 1939
Quay Gallery, 1972, 1975

Public Collections:
Oakland Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Literature: Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940; Henry Hopkins, Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era; Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980; The Art of California, Selected Works from the Collection of the Oakland Museum; Susan Landauer, The San Francisco School of Abstract Express   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1319 characters.]  Artist bio

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23 Book References for Ruth Armer
Year Author Title Pages Color
2015 St. Gaudens, Maurine (Editor) Emerging from the Shadows: Volume One (A-D) A Survey of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960 0 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Marion Wardle and Stephanie American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri 1910-1945 (Brigham Young University Museum of Art) 274 Yes
2004 Landauer, Susan San Francisco and Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism 240 Yes
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1996 Landauer, Susan The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism
(Exhibition catalog)
271 Yes
1995 Trenton, Patricia (Editor); Sandra E'Emilio, Erika Doss (et all) Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945
(Exhibition catalog)
304 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 Moore, Sylvia (editor) Yesterday and Tomorow California Women Artists 378 No
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1976 San Francisco Mus Modern Art Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era 272 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1958 Art Bank of the SFAA San Francisco Art Association Painting and Sculpture (in) 87 No
1956 Long Beach Muni Art Center California Painting 40 Painters 90 No
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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