Artist's Talk: Ruth Fine presented by the Open Space Conversations Series and Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms

Please join the Open Space Conversation Series, hosted by Dean Walters, the Museum Studies program, Special Collections, and the curators of Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms for a lecture by curator and artist, Ruth Fine.

The talk will be held Wednesday, November 15th from 12-1pm in the Rare Book Room, Canaday Library.

From the artist’s biography: "Fine was a curator for the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from 1972-2012, first as curator of Lessing J. Rosenwald’s Collection at Alverthorpe Gallery, Jenkintown, PA (through 1980 when the collection was moved to Washington after Rosenwalds’ death), then of Modern Prints and Drawings through 2002, and of Special Projects in Modern Art until she left Washington in 2012.  She organized exhibitions of work by American artists including Romare Bearden, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, John Marin, and Georgia O'Keeffe and contemporary print-publishing workshops such as Crown Point Press, Gemini G.E.L., and Graphic studio, U.S.F. 

Most recently, she curated Martin Puryear: Prints, 1962-2016 for The Print Center, Philadelphia (on view through November 18) and the traveling retrospective, Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis, organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which was accompanied by a major publication that received the College Art Association's Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Museum Scholarship.

Prior to her museum career, Fine taught studio art, including printmaking, painting, drawing, and design at what are now the University of the Arts and Arcadia University; and the University of Vermont.  She received her B.F.A. from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), and her M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms is thrilled to feature her California Landscape series, part of the Bill Scott Collection and in part gifted by Fine to the College so the collection would have the complete set – ever the curator."