Landscape – Ruth Brody

BRODY Ruth – Huile sur toile signée à l’endos et mesurant 18×24 pouces – USA 1960

She was born August 11, 1917 in New York City, daughter of the late Eli and Anna (Becker) Israel and was a confirmed New Yorker for most of her life. She studied with Tschacbasov, Raphael Soyer and Shoulman, received a B.A. from Hunter College in 1938 and a M.A. from Teachers’ College, Columbia University in 1940, both in Fine Arts. Ms. Brody was an accomplished and recognized artist, exhibiting and selling her paintings and winning awards, including juried exhibits at Knickerbocker Artists, NY and Silvermine Guild, the Bronx Museum and the Hudson River Museum. She exhibited as a member of Gallery 84 in Manhattan and was included in Who’s Who in American Art. She was a member of the American Society of Contemporary Artists, New York Artists Equity and Found Community Artists. She taught art at Washington Irving H.S. in New York City and at Roosevelt H.S. in Yonkers, NY. A proud and active member of the New York teachers’ union, she was forced in 1953 to resign her position at Washington Irving because of her involvement in left-wing politics in her younger years. She valued honesty and integrity above all else and “did not suffer fools gladly.” Ruth Brody lived in the Bronx most of her life, in the Amalgamated and then in a house on Giles Place filled with a lifetime-worth of her artworks.

Greene Gallery NYC