Ruth Starr Rose | |
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| Born | Ruth Starr 1887 Eau Claire, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Died | 1965 Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Modern Painting |
| Spouse | William Searls Rose |
| Awards | Mary Hills Goodwin Prize |
Ruth Starr Rose (1887–1965) was an American artist. She was a painter, lithographer and serigrapher, and best known for her paintings of African American life in Maryland in the 1930s and 1940s.[1][2]
This important woman artist's work has toured throughout Maryland, the United States, and Europe as a unique example of an early American Shared Community expressed through pigment and paint. Additionally, Rose is credited as the first white artist to create a work of art for a black church. The subject of her fresco, Pharaoh's Army Got Drownded, was to honor the minister's son who perished in training for WWII.
- ^ Ruth Starr Rose Smithsonian American Art Museum, accessed April 8, 2016
- ^ Before 'Black Lives Matter,' there was Ruth Starr Rose The Washington Post, October 6, 2015