Ruth Goldsborough Oil Painting on Canvas "Chief Black Kettle"

Item Details

Provenance
Property from an American Midwestern Museum

An oil painting on canvas titled Chief Black Kettle by Ruth Goldsborough (American, 1918 – 2013), dated 2000. The work depicts a portrait of a figure in Native American regalia using soft gradients from light to dark shadows. To the bottom right, the work is signed and dated in paint. A metal plaque is attached to the bottom of the frame with the title of the work and the artist’s name. The painting is presented in a large wooden frame with a matted fabric square to the bottom of the frame and gold-toned decorative fillet.

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 and wear to fabric rectangle to the bottom of the frame; to the verso, some wear to protective paper.

Dimensions

- measurements of frame; measurements of visible image 19.5" W x 27.25" H.

Item #

17DCC191-028