Ruth Tuck b. 22 July 1914

Also known as Ruth Edith Tuck
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Prominent South Australian artist particularly in the 1940s, honoured by Flinders University as 'a teacher and a watercolour painter at the forefront of the fight for the acceptance in Australia of modernism in art'. Watercolour painter of flowers, landscape and portraits, Tuck was also a prolific draughtsperson and teacher.

Citations

  • Biven, Rachel (1976), 'Some Forgotten… Some Remembered’, Norwood, SA.

  • Bruton, Dean (1986), 'Recollections: Contemporary Art Society of South Australia 1942-1985’, Adelaide, SA.

  • Hylton, Jane (1989), 'Adelaide Angries’, Adelaide, SA : Art Gallery of South Australia catalogue.

  • Wilson, Shirley Cameron (1988), 'From Shadow into Light’, St Peter’s, SA.

  • (1977), 'Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Ruth Tuck’, Adelaide, SA : Adelaide Fine Art and Graphics Gallery catalogue.

  • Kerr, Joan, '[Joan Kerr Archive]’, Canberra, ACT : National Library of Australia.

  • Hylton, Jane (1994), 'South Australian Women Artists’, Adelaide, SA : Art Gallery of South Australia catalogue.

  • Interior and photograph of Tuck shown in Nanette Carter & Robyn Oswald-Jacobs. Frances Burke, Designer of Modern Textiles. Melbourne Univ. Press, 2021, 221 pages, illustrated, p.186

See also

  • 'PORTRAIT: Ruth Tuck, Self Portrait, Convalescing 1985, watercolour (private collection). Courtesy Shirley Cameron Wilson & the artist.'.
  • 'Heritage: Section 1, plate 41'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book