David Ruff

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David Ruff (b. 13 November 1925) is an American artist, living and working in the Italian city of Turin.

He was born in New York. He studied painting with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 in New York's Greenwich Village from 1947 to 1948.

He ran The Print Workshop in San Francisco from 1950 to 1955, publishing poetry and teaching etching and engraving. A show of his graphic work and fine letter-press editions was held at the Book Club of California in 1953.

In 1955, he printed Pictures of a Gone World, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the first of the City Lights Pocket Poets series of anthologies. The same year he returned to the east coast and painting, settling in Woodstock, NY.

His search for new artistic directions led him to travel - from France, to Holland and England - and finally to Italy.

David C (harles). Ruff studied print-making with Hayter at Atelier 17, not painting; he had studied painting with Yasuo Kuniyoshi.