Ruth Egri

Ruth Egri

Ruth Egri, photographed for the Works Progress Administration, New York, NY. From the collection of the Archives of American Art.
Born 1911 (1911)
Died 1996 (1997)
Nationality American
Field Figure painter, muralist, illustrator

Ruth Egri was an American artist who worked in the Federal Art Project and in the the WPA New Reading Materials Program during the New Deal. She is known for her mural at Lincoln Hospital (Bronx, New York),[1] and for teaching mural painting at the Spokane Art Center, Washington.[2]

Her illustrations appeared in three childrens' books.[1]

External links

References

  1. ^ a b "Ruth Egri papers, 1923-1988.". http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!212484!0&term=. Retrieved 2011-12-17. 
  2. ^ "Oral history interview of the board of the Spokane Art Center, 1965 Nov. 18 - Oral Histories". http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-board-spokane-art-center-12298. Retrieved 2011-12-17. 

Further reading

"Medical murals." Direction 1 (June 1938): cover, 14-15. Annotated Bibliography 129.
Photo essay on murals with medical themes in hospitals by Eric Mose and Ruth Egri (Lincoln Hospital, NYC), and Rudolph Crimi (Harlem Hospital). Cover photograph of Mose at work.

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Works Progress Administration.