Details
- Dimensions
- 24ʺW × 3.7ʺD × 24ʺH
- Styles
- Abstract
- Art Subjects
- Abstract
- Period
- 1960s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Sandstone
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- White
- Condition Notes
- Excellent Excellent less
- Description
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Ruth Duckworth
German/American
1919 - 2009
Composition
Sandstone glazed mounted on Plexi sheet
24 x 24 x 3.7 in.
Ruth … more Ruth Duckworth
German/American
1919 - 2009
Composition
Sandstone glazed mounted on Plexi sheet
24 x 24 x 3.7 in.
Ruth Duckworth was a British sculptor who was best known for her smooth ceramic works of abstract forms derived from nature. Finding much of her inspiration from early Bronze Age Cycladic sculptures, Duckworth’s works have smooth and elongated silhouettes with slight details to insinuate the face and limbs. Born Ruth Windmüller on April 10, 1919 in Hamburg, Germany to a Jewish father and Christian mother, she was forced to leave Germany in 1936 and study abroad at the Liverpool College of Art in the United Kingdom due to Nazi restrictions on Jewish students. She initially worked as a tombstone engraver in England, and later moved to Chicago to teach at the University of Chicago in 1964. Her works are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, among others. Duckworth died on October 18, 2009 in Chicago, IL where she less
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