RUTH ARMER
Painter, Teacher 1896-1977

Education and Teaching
Attended California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1914-1915, 1918-1919. Studied with George Bellows, Robert Henri, and John Sloan at the Art Students League, New York. Taught at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1933-1940.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 1945-1975
Gump's Department Store Gallery, San Francisco, 1967; Quay Gallery, 1972, 1975.

Selected Group Exhibitions 1945-1975
65th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association (from 1961, The San Francisco Art Institute) at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1945; 68th-70th Annual, 1949-1951; 72nd-73rd Annual, 1953-1954; 75th-76th Annual, 1956-1957; 79th Annual, 1960; Fourth-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1951-1952; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1952; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1952; III Bienal, Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1955; California Painters: 40 Painters, Municipal Art Center, Long Beach, 1956; Madison Square Garden, 1958; First-Fourth Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1960-1963; The Art Bank of the San Francisco Art Association (from 1961, The San Francisco Art Institute), 1959-1960, 1962-1966.