Emerging from the Shadows: Volume Two (E-K): A Survey Of Women Artists Working in California, 1860-1960
2015St. Gaudens, Maurine (Editor)
352 pages (color)
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1904 Chicago, Illinois - 1978 Santa Barbara, California. Known for: Easel and mural painting, sculpture, portraits, genre, figure, landscape.
Kempster, Ruth Miller 1904–1978. Ruth Blanchard Miller was born on January 17, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the third and youngest daughter of Kempster B. and Antha (Knowlton) Miller, a couple... Read full biography
Kempster, Ruth Miller 1904–1978. Ruth Blanchard Miller was born on January 17, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the third and youngest daughter of Kempster B. and Antha (Knowlton) Miller, a couple who valued education. Ruth was interested in art as a child, and while she was in high school her... Read full biography
Kempster, Ruth Miller 1904–1978. Ruth Blanchard Miller was born on January 17, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the third and youngest daughter of Kempster B. and Antha (Knowlton) Miller, a couple who valued education. Ruth was interested in art as a child, and while she was in high school her father bought her a correspondence course in art basics from the Kansas City Art Institute, which she eagerly completed. The family assumed that after Ruth finished high school, she would attend Vassar... Read full biography
Kempster, Ruth Miller 1904–1978. Ruth Blanchard Miller was born on January 17, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the third and youngest daughter of Kempster B. and Antha (Knowlton) Miller, a couple who valued education. Ruth was interested in art as a child, and while she was in high school her father bought her a correspondence course in art basics from the Kansas City Art Institute, which she eagerly completed. The family assumed that after Ruth finished high school, she would attend Vassar College, as her mother and sisters before her had done, but Ruth had what she later referred to as “a tiny little nervous breakdown,” which convinced her parents to forget Vassar and send her directly to art school. In 1922, the family were... Read full biography
Kempster, Ruth Miller 1904–1978. Ruth Blanchard Miller was born on January 17, 1904, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the third and youngest daughter of Kempster B. and Antha (Knowlton) Miller, a couple who valued education. Ruth was interested in art as a child, and while she was in high school her father bought her a correspondence course in art basics from the Kansas City Art Institute, which she eagerly completed. The family assumed that after Ruth finished high school, she would attend Vassar College, as her mother and sisters before her had done, but Ruth had what she later referred to as “a tiny little nervous breakdown,” which convinced her parents to forget Vassar and send her directly to art school. In 1922, the family were residents of Pasadena, California, and Ruth began her studies at the Stickney Memorial Art School in Los Angeles, California, and continued at the... Read full biography
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesArtists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
2002
Available For Sale.Hughes, Edan Milton1,249 pagesFor Sale<a href="mailto:info@askart.com">Available For Sale</a>.Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pages