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Ruth Duckworth

Ruth Duckworth (1919 - 2009) was active/lived in Illinois / United Kingdom.  Ruth Duckworth is known for Mod ceramics, stone carving, bronze sculpture.

"Ruth Duckworth, Sculptor and Muralist, Dies at 90"

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Ruth Duckworth, a sculptor whose work in clay and bronze included monumental sculptures and murals, as well as small-scale, intimate pieces, died last Sunday in Chicago. She was 90.
Her death was confirmed by Thea Burger, her agent.

Ms. Duckworth followed an idiosyncratic career path, starting as a stone mason in Britain and not turning to ceramics until her 40s, bringing a sculptor's sensibility to it. Intent on doing large-scale ceramic work, then out of favor in Britain, she accepted a teaching appointment at the University of Chicago in 1964 and began executing monumental ceramic murals and, later, bronze sculptures.

Her stoneware murals, notably Earth, Water and Sky (1967-68) and Clouds Over Lake Michigan (1976), incorporated topographical swirls and abstractly rendered cloud patterns. Her small works, by contrast, were often delicate and abstract, with surrealist ove   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9850 characters.]  Artist bio

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Untitled (wall relief sculpture), 1979

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Untitled (Mama Pot) , 1976

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Untitled , 1986

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Untitled Wall Relief

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Untitled', model no. 5591097, 1994

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Clouds Over Lake Michigan maquette

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