Ruth Armer (1896-1977)

Ruth Armer was born in San Francisco and spent most of 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. Ruth Armer taught at the California School of Fine Arts from 1933 to 1940.

Before WWII, she painted in a broad, expressionistic, and nonrepresentational style.  During the 1950s, her work became more abstract, and then during the 1960s and early 1970s, more hard-edge.

Literature
2005  Davenport, Ray.  Davenport’s Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005  Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor).  The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists
2004  Landauer, Susan.  San Francisco and Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism
2002  Hughes, Edan Milton.  Artists in California: 1786-1940
1999  Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor).  Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, 3 volumes
1998  Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick.  An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West
1996  Landauer, Susan.  The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism
1995  Trenton, Patricia (Editor); Sandra E’Emilio, Erika Doss (et all).  Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945
1989  Moore, Sylvia (editor).  Yesterday and Tomorrow: California Women Artists
1989  Hughes, Edan Milton.  Artists in California, 1786-1940
1985  DuPont, Diana, K Holland.  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art   Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985  Petteys, Chris.  Dictionary of Women Artists:  An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985  Dawdy, Doris.  Artists of the American West:  A Biographical Dictionary (3 volumes)
1985  Falk, Peter Hastings.  Who Was Who in American Art:Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985  Albright, Thomas.  Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980: An Illustrated History
1976  San Francisco Museum Modern Art.  Painting & Sculpture in California, The Modern Era
1975  Smithsonian (Editor).  Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1958  Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association (SFAA).  Painting and Sculpture (in)
1956  Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (Editor).  American Painting Today
1956  Long Beach Municipal Art Center.  California Painting – 40 Painters
1935  Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge.  Index of Artists: International-Biographical, Two Volumes: Includes 1940

Museums
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA), San Francisco, California
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California

Exhibitions (Partial known)
1975  Quay Gallery.  San Francisco, California
1972  Quay Gallery.  San Francisco, California
1939  San Francisco Museum of Art.  San Francisco, California
1936  San Francisco Museum of Art.  San Francisco, California
1922  Vickery, Atkins & Torrey Art Gallery.  San Francisco, California
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Sources:
David Carlson, Carlson Gallery, California
Edan Hughes, “Artists in California 1786-1940”
Thomas Albright, “Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980”

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