Biografie von Ruth ECKSTEIN (1916-2011)

Birth place: Nüremberg, Germany

Addresses: Great Neck, NY

Profession: Printmaker, painter

Studied: New School Soc. Res., NYC, with Stuart Davis; ASL, with Harry Sternberg, Julian Levy, & V. Vitlacyl; Pratt Graphic Center, New York, with Seong Moy & Roberto Delamonica.

Exhibited: Prints & Watercolors, PAFA, 1959, 1964 & 1965; Nat. Print Exhib., LOC, 1960; Triennial of Original Colored Graphics, Grenchen, Switzerland, 1964; Carroll Reece Mus., Johnson City, TN, 1968; Alonzo Gallery, New York, 1968, 1970 & 1972 (solos). Awards: purchase option, ASL New York, 1955; purchase award, Hofstra Univ., Hempstead, NY, 1956; Village AC Award, New York, 1963.

Member: Am. Abstract Artists (secretary, 1970-); SAGA; Audubon Artists.

Work: PMA; BM; Israel Mus., Jerusalem; Univ. Mass., Amherst; U.S. Info Agency, Graphic Arts Project.

Comments: Preferred media: acrylics, collage, intaglio print.

Sources: WW73; Prize-Winning Graphics II (1964).