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.
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Related recognitions
  • Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) (received)
  • Honorary Life Member South Australia Branch of the Contemporary Art Society (received)
  • Honorary Life Member Royal South Australian Society of Arts, SA (received)
  • Awarded a Doctor of the University of South Australia, 1998 (received)
  • Flinders University (received)
  • Fellow of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts (received)
  • Awarded a Doctor of the University of South Australia, 1998 (received)
  • Flinders University (received)
  • Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) (received)
  • Fellow of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts (received)
  • Honorary Life Member South Australia Branch of the Contemporary Art Society (received)
  • Honorary Life Member Royal South Australian Society of Arts, SA (received)