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Ruth Armer Art

1896-1977

A painter, educator and lithographer, Ruth Armer, was born in San Francisco, USA, in 1896 and spent her career in that city. She attended the California School of Fine Arts from 1914–15 and then again from 1918–19. She later studied at the Art Students League of New York with George Bellows, Robert Henri, and John Sloan. Armer taught at the California School of Fine Arts from 1933–40. Her painting styles ranged from abstract to representational. Armer’s solo exhibitions were on display at the Vickery, Atkins & Torrey Art Gallery in San Francisco, California (1922), the Cleveland Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1936, 1939), Quay Gallery in New Zealand (1972), and the Public Collections at the Oakland Museum of California and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Artist: Ruth Armer
Low Fog
By Ruth Armer
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Low Fog" 1939 is an oil painting on canvas board by noted California artist Ruth Armer, 1896-1977. It is signed at the lower right corn...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Ruth Armer Art

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Oil

Landscape with Cows
By Ruth Armer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Landscape with Cows, c. 1930s, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, signed lower middle About the Painting Landscape with Cows is a fine example of California Scene painting, the West Coast version of the American Scene genre practiced during the 1930s and 1940s by the likes of Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry. Armer stands out as one of the rare female oil painters working in this style in California, as most of her contemporaries were men whose fame largely depended on watercolor as a medium. Like many Regionalist painters, Armer heeded the call to paint the local scene during the 1930s and even in the depths of the Great Depression, she captured the natural beauty and abundance of the California ranch lands. For many migrants from the Dust Bowl and the southern parts of the United States, California was a golden land of opportunity. In Landscape with Cows, Armer plays on this theme by portraying the fields and distant foothills in a variety of golden hues. This work is a celebration of California’s unique geography, and it fits nicely into the grand tradition of American landscape painting. Armer’s spare treatment of the distant hills and buildings presages the abstract forms she later began to explore in earnest. Like many other artists working during the 1930s, Armer moved strongly towards abstraction by the 1940s, making her critically celebrated California Scene landscapes rare. About the Artist Ruth Armer...
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1930s American Realist Ruth Armer Art

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Untitled
By Ruth Armer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Ruth Armer – American (1896-1977) Title: Untitled Year: circa 1940 Medium: Watercolor and gouache on paper Sight size: 13.75 x 19.5 inches. Framed ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ruth Armer Art

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Watercolor, Gouache, Paper

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