Ruskin

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The name Ruskin usually refers to:

• John Ruskin (1819-1900), an English author, poet and artist, most famous for his work as art critic and social critic, and for his writing on the architecture of Venice.

A number of institutions and locations have been named after John Ruskin, including two places in the United States and one in Canada. For a short period "Ruskin" was also adopted as a forename.

Contents 1 Places 2 Institutions 3 Forename

[edit] Places

• Ruskin, British Columbia, Canada

In the United States:

• Ruskin, Florida
• Ruskin, Georgia
• Ruskin, Nebraska
• Ruskin Colony, a utopian socialist colony which existed in Dickson County, Tennessee from 1894 to 1899 (the Florida and British Columbia Ruskins were also Ruskinite colonies)

[edit] Institutions

• Anglia Ruskin University, in Cambridge, England
• "The Ruskin", the colloquial short form for The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University
• Ruskin College, Oxford, an adult education college named after John Ruskin

[edit] Forename

• Ruskin Bond, an Indian author of British descent
• Ruskin Spear, a British painter