Ruth Goldsborough Oil Painting on Canvas "Chief Big Foot"

Item Details

Provenance
Property from an American Midwestern Museum

An oil painting on canvas titled Chief Big Foot by Ruth Goldsborough (American, 1918 – 2013), created in 2000. The work depicts a portrait in Native American regalia featuring soft gradients from light to dark shadows. To the bottom right, the work is signed and dated in paint. The work includes a large matted area to the bottom of the frame. The painting is presented in a large wooden frame with a decorative gold-toned fillet without glass.

Art educator and painter Ruth Goldsborough began her formal art training under to tutelage of painter, print maker, and educator George Jo Mess (American, 1898 – 1962) at Indiana University. She also studied at the John Heron School of Art. After her husband’s death in 1975 the artist traveled throughout Arizona painting scenes of the American West. Her work can be viewed in private collections and institutions including the Cherokee Museum in Oklahoma. At the time of her death an Education Fund for the Hendersonville Art League was created in her honor.

Condition

- some wear to the frame; puncture marks to the bottom fabric rectangle from previous display; small scratch to the top of the painting; to the verso, some wear to protective paper.

Dimensions

- measurements of frame; measurements of visible work 19.5" W x 27" H.

Item #

17DCC191-027