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Ruth Levine Gikow

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Ruth Levine Gikow (1915 - 1982) was active/lived in New York / Ukraine, Russian Federation.  Ruth Gikow is known for Figurative expression, landscape painting.

The following biography is from George Krevsky:

Ruth Gikow was born in the Russian Ukraine, the daughter of Boris and Lena Gikow. When she was five, her family emigrated to the Lower East Side of New York. With a zest for living she never lost, she overcame the language barrier quickly and survived the teeming streets, diverting her tough cronies with chalk drawings on the sidewalk. She won distinction for her artwork at Washington Irving High School, which had one of the strongest art departments in New York City.

At age 17, Gikow entered Cooper Union Art School and studied under two well known regional artists, Austin Purvis, Jr. and John Steuart Curry.  She continued her studies under Raphael Soyer and held an impromptu showing of her earliest paintings in the lobby of the Eighth Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village.  After art school, she received funding for four years from the WPA's Federal Arts Project.

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Ruth Levine Gikow


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Book Illustration
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt Style
  • Cartoon Drawing, Cartoon Figures
  • Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
Art Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
  • Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Russia
  • Woodstock, New York
Art Association
  • Woodstock Art Association, New York
Art Teacher
  • Austin Purvis, Jr.
  • John Steuart Curry
  • Raphael Soyer
Art School
  • Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
  • Grand Central School of Art, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Yaddo Resident Artist
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Commercial Art and Design
  • Mural Specialty
  • WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Ethnicity of Artist
  • Russian
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City
  • Weyhe Gallery, New York City
Exhibition of Art Association
  • National Institute of Arts and Letters
Exhibition of Museum
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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