Ruth Goldsborough Oil Painting in Canvas "Monument Valley, the Invaders"

Item Details

Provenance
Property from an American Midwestern Museum

An oil painting on canvas titled Monument Valley, the Invaders by Ruth Goldsborough (American, 1918 – 2013), dated 1981. The work depicts a spanning landscape of red sand and rock formations with horseback riders to the foreground. To the bottom right, the work is signed and dated in paint. A metal plaque is attached to the frame with the title and artist name etched into the metal. The painting is presented in a large 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 frame; to the verso, some wear and deliberate holes to the protective paper.

Dimensions

- measurements of frame; measurements of visible image 47.5" W x 35.5" H.

Item #

17DCC191-042