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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associate of
South Australia Branch of the Contemporary Art Society
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associate of
Department of Adult Education
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associate of
Adelaide Advertiser, SA
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associate of
Ruth Tuck Art School
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  • First Exposition of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts Associate Contemporary Group (exhibited at)
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  • Exhibition of Watercolours by Ruth Tuck and Mervyn Smith (exhibited at)
  • Contemporary Art Society's Anti-Fascist Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • First Exposition of the Royal South Australian Society of Arts Associate Contemporary Group (exhibited at)
  • Let's Face It (exhibited at)
  • South Australian Women Artists: paintings from the 1890s to the 1940s (exhibited at)
  • Women and Art (exhibited at)
  • Look, Look Again (exhibited at)