Ruth Browne
Blue Abstract, 1960
oil on linen
725 x 825mm
960 x 1070mm framed
960 x 1070mm framed
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Ruth D. Browne 1905 – 2002 An outstanding student of the Canterbury College School of Art in the 1920s, Ruth D. Browne was a contemporary of Rita Angus and Olivia...
Ruth D. Browne
1905 – 2002
An outstanding student of the Canterbury College School of Art in the 1920s, Ruth D. Browne was a contemporary of Rita Angus and Olivia Spencer Bower. She produced a significant range of highly accomplished landscape painting and portraiture, though moved firmly toward abstract painting in the 1960s. These works were inventive, and through them she engaged in challenging preconceptions of painting as a fundamentally pictorial discipline that were still prevalent at the time. In a 2016 newspaper column, arts reviewer T.J. McNamara stated, “Aspects of our recent art history are quietly made apparent by an exhibition of work by Ruth D. Browne […]. She graduated as a top student at the Canterbury College School of Art and later attended the Slade School in London. She became an exceptionally fine landscape painter. [...] Then there was a shift in her work as she grappled with abstraction. Some were colourful and vigorously painted.” Browne’s Blue Abstract, 1960, is a prime example of her engagement with abstract painting.
1905 – 2002
An outstanding student of the Canterbury College School of Art in the 1920s, Ruth D. Browne was a contemporary of Rita Angus and Olivia Spencer Bower. She produced a significant range of highly accomplished landscape painting and portraiture, though moved firmly toward abstract painting in the 1960s. These works were inventive, and through them she engaged in challenging preconceptions of painting as a fundamentally pictorial discipline that were still prevalent at the time. In a 2016 newspaper column, arts reviewer T.J. McNamara stated, “Aspects of our recent art history are quietly made apparent by an exhibition of work by Ruth D. Browne […]. She graduated as a top student at the Canterbury College School of Art and later attended the Slade School in London. She became an exceptionally fine landscape painter. [...] Then there was a shift in her work as she grappled with abstraction. Some were colourful and vigorously painted.” Browne’s Blue Abstract, 1960, is a prime example of her engagement with abstract painting.