Ruth Goldsborough Oil Painting on Canvas "Lone Rider"

Item Details

Provenance
Property from an American Midwestern Museum

An oil painting on canvas titled Lone Rider by listed artist Ruth Goldsborough (American, 1918 – 2013), dated 1982. The work depicts a male rider in a mountainous American Western landscape. Signed and dated by the artist to the lower right corner. Housed in a wood frame with a fabric fillet and a brass-tone name plate. Goldsborough was known for her American Western scenes.

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

- tears to paper backing; water stains to verso.

Dimensions

- measures frame; sight size 17.5" W x 23. 5" H.

Item #

17DCC191-037