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WAINWRIGHT, Ruth Salter
- Born
- North Sydney, Nova Scotia, 1902
- Died
- Nova Scotia, 1984
- Biography synopsis
- Ruth Wainwright was born in Nova Scotia in 1902. She studied at the Halifax Ladies’ College under Edith Smith. In 1953 she went to New York and studied at Hans Hofmann’s Provincetown school. This experience marked a major turning point in her career; she abandoned the realist tradition of watercolor painting and she began to explore the two-dimensional nature of the picture plane and to work with form and space by juxtaposing planes of color.
- Media used
- Drawing
- Mixed media
- Painting
- Watercolour
- Education
- Hans Hofmann's Summer School, Provincetown, 1953 - ?
- File & Archive locations
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Artexte Information Centre, QC - Documentation Centre
- Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, ON
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- London Public Library, ON
- Bryn Mawr College, PA
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Canadian Travel Film Library. Artists (Nova Scotia) New York: Canadian Travel Film Library, 1970
- Cronin, Ray. Halifax Art and Artists: An Illustrated History Toronto: Art Institute of Canada, 2023
http://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/halifax-art-and-artists/ - Fraser, Carol. “Ruth Wainwright: The Thing Transformed.” Arts Atlantic (Spring 1984)
- Hoskins, Alice. “Ruth Wainwright: A Retrospective” Halifax: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 1982
- MacDonald, Colin S. The Dictionary of Canadian Artists. (Volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009
- Murray, Joan. "Ruth Wainwright: On Banners." Canada Crafts 4.5 (Jun-Jul. 1979): 21-5
Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 18, 1937) "Nearly 500 Works at Spring Exhibit. Art Association's 54th Annual Show Opens with Private Views. Judges Open-Minded." Gazette (Montreal) March 19, 1937. p.13,17. Full-text pdf
- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 18, 1937) "The Spring Exhibition of the Art Association." Montreal Star March 19, 1937. p.17. Full-text pdf
