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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exhibited at
Ruth Tuck: Five Decades of Paintings
Date
1986
Place
Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Exhibition of Watercolours by Ruth Tuck and Mervyn Smith
Date
1947
Place
John Martin's Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Contemporary Art Society's Anti-Fascist Exhibition
Date
4 January 1943 - 25 January 1943
Place
Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide, SA
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
First Exposition of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts Associate Contemporary Group
Date
July 1942
Place
Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition

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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)