Rediscovering Ruth Grotenrath : all things belong to this earth with contributions by Annemarie Sawkins and Jan Serr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sawkins, Annemarie, contributor.

Language:

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Artists--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Exhibitions.

Artists.

Art, American.

Artists' books--Wisconsin--Exhibitions.

Artists' books.

Grotenrath, Ruth--Exhibitions.

Wisconsin.

Wisconsin--Milwaukee.

Local Subjects:

Grotenrath, Ruth--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Physical Description:

79 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin : Plumb Press, 2023.

Summary:

Ruth Grotenrath was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1912, the same year John Cage was born in Los Angeles, California, and Jackson Pollock in Cody, Wyoming. In 1933, age 21, Grotenrath received a BA in art history from the Wisconsin State Teachers College (now UWM). 1933 is also the year that she "graduated" to adulthood in the worst days of the Great Depression. The retrospective begins with black-and-white images made by Grotenrath for her 1929 Riverside High School yearbook. The exhibition includes early examples of social realism for the Work Progress Administration (WPA), textile designs, and numerous still lifes. Most of the exhibition features Grotenrath's invention of a unique, personal art, for which she is known and remembered. Grotenrath learned from Frank Lloyd Wright's love of Japanese art, meeting him with her husband and fellow-artist Schomer Lichtner in 1934. She was inspired by her visits to the Art Institute of Chicago with its collection of Japanese prints and exhibitions of European modernists such as Vincent van Gogh and Henri Matisse. She also drew from her personal study of Japanese art and philosophy, including a two-month visit to Japan in 1965. The exhibition features work from the Guido Brink Fine Art Collection at MIAD, the Museum of Wisconsin Art, the Racine Art Museum, and the Warehouse Art Museum along with select generous private lenders.

Contents:

A Personal Remembrance

Ruth Grotenrath: An Artistic Pioneer

Ruth Grotenrath, A Timeline

Gallery of Images

Works in the Exhibition

Solo Exhibitions

Select Group Exhibitions and Exhibitions with Schomer Lichtner

Bibliography

Curator and Author Biographies

Notes:

NOTE: A copy of this item is kept at the Grohmann Museum.

ISBN:

9780932282224

0932282229

OCLC:

1373906131