Ruth Goldsborough Oil Painting on Canvas "Stagecoach"

Item Details

Provenance
Property from an American Midwestern Museum

An oil painting on canvas titled Stagecoach by Ruth Goldsborough (American, 1918 – 2013), created in 1980. The work depicts a genre scene of a stagecoach racing though a western landscape featuring large boulders and grass. To the bottom left, the work is signed and dated in paint. A metal plaque is attached to the wooden frame with the title and the artist’s name. The painting is presented in a wooden frame with both a tan and orange fabric 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

- extensive scratches and wear to the frame; work could benefit from a cleaning; to the verso, some rips and tears to protective paper; To the verso, paint mark to the canvas.

Dimensions

- measurements of frame; measurements of visible image 23.5" W x 17.5" H.

Item #

17DCC191-046