Ruth Bernice Anderson (1914-2002) American, Oil on Canvas Fall Landscape

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Ruth Bernice Anderson (1914-2002) American, Oil on Canvas Fall Landscape. Signed lower left. Overall Size: 28 1/4 x 34 1/2 in. Sight Size: 21 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. A painter in Indiana, Ruth Anderson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana July 7, 1914. She studied at the John Herron School of Art and her teachers were Clifton Wheeler and Gerry Pierce. Primarily a landscape and still life painter, her subjects were often downtown Indianapolis street and architectural scenes and also children at play. She exhibited at the Tucson Fine Arts Association and at the Hoosier Salon over the period 1944-1986 where she won prizes in 1960, 61, 69, 73, and 76. She exhibited at the Indiana Art Club in 1974 and at the All-State Exhibition in Tucson in 1937. Her paintings are in the collections of the Brown County Art Gallery Association, Kokomo Public Library, Indiana University, Indiana Bell Telephone, Indiana State University, DePauw University, Indiana National Bank and Orchard School. Anderson was a teacher at the Indianapolis Art League and at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis.