Ruth Goldsborough Oil Painting on Canvas "Left Mitten at Monument Valley"

Item Details

Provenance
Property from an American Midwestern Museum

An oil painting on canvas titled Left Mitten at Monument Valley by Ruth Goldsborough (American, 1918 – 2013), dated 1982. The work depicts a spanning Western landscape with curving and splintered wood to the foreground. To the bottom right, the work is signed and dated in paint. A metal plaque adhered to the frame is engraved with the title and the artist’s name. The painting is presented in a gold toned wooden frame with a canvas 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 edges of the frame; to the verso, some rips and puncture marks to the protective paper.

Dimensions

- measurements of frame; measurements of visible image 27.75" W x 21.75" H.

Item #

17DCC191-038