A painter, educator and lithographer, Ruth Armer was born in San Francisco and spent her career in that city. She attended the California School of Fine Arts, 1914-1915, 1918-1919 and studied in New York at the Art Students League with George Bellows, Robert Henri, and John Sloan. Armer taught at the California School of Fine Arts from 1933 to 1940. Her painting styles ranged from abstract to representational.
Vickery, Atkins & Torrey Gallery, San Francisco, 1922
Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA, 1932
Cleveland Museum of Art
Brownell-Lamberton Galleries, Inc., NY, November 1934
San Francisco Museum of Art, 1936, 1939, 1950
Rotunda Gallery of the city of Paris, San Francisco, 1948
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950
Raymond and Raymond Gallery, San Francisco, 1952
Eric Locke Gallery, San Francisco, 1958
Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, 1963
Gump's Gallery, San Francisco, 1967
Quay Gallery, 1972, 1975
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
"1951 annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 8, 1951- January 6, 1952
"1956 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 18 - June 10, 1956
"Landscape Without Boundaries: Selections from the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art", University of California, Davis, July 14- December 15, 2019
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Smithsonian American art Museum, Washington D.C.
Monday - Friday
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Evenings & weekends
by appointment
Monday - Friday: 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Evenings & Weekends
by appointment
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