Biography

1924 Born in Brooklyn, NY

1975 Died in Westchester County, NY

Education

1953-55 The Art Students League of New York

1940-42 The Art Students League of New York

1936-40 Abraham Lincoln High School, Brooklyn, NY

Instructor

1944 Art Instructor, Manhattan Beach U.S.O., sponsored by the Jewish Welfare Board

Awards

1940 First Prize, C. Howard Hunt Linoleum Block Print Division, Strathmore Paper Co. Supplementary Award, National Scholastic Awards

Selected Group Exhibitions

A.L.H.S. Students’ Exhibit, Lincoln Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, October 23-31, year unknown

1943

Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 7, 1942-February 22, 1943

1946

8 and a Totem Pole, Galerie Neuf, New York, April 14-May 8, 1946

4th National Exhibition of Prints, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, May 1-August 1, 1946

Group Exhibition, Galerie Neuf, New York, June 27-August 11, 1946

Group Exhibition, Galerie Neuf, New York, December 1946

1947

31st Annual Exhibition: The Brooklyn Society of Artists, The Brooklyn Museum, NY, January 15-February 9. 1947

First National Print Annual Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, NY, March 19-May 4, 1947

1950

Brooklyn Artists Biennial Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, NY, February 15-March 22, 1950

Fourth National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, NY, March 22-May 21, 1950

1991

Indian Space Painters: Native American Sources for American Abstract Art, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, City University of New York, November 8-December 17, 1991

Selected Bibliography

Cargoes, January 1940.

“Prints.” Cargoes, June 1940.

“The Art Awards.” Scholastic 36, no. 14 (May 6, 1940).

“Spruance Voted Best in Lithograph Salon.” The Art Digest 16, no. 9 (February 1, 1942).

Beaudoin, Kenneth Lawrence. “This is the Spring of 1946.” Iconograph, no. 1 (spring 1946).

Reed, Judith Kaye. “Around a Totem Pole.” The Art Digest 20, no. 15 (May 1, 1946).

Beaudoin, Kenneth Lawrence. “6 Young Female Painters.” Iconograph, no. 2 (summer 1946).

Beaudoin, Kenneth Lawrence. “Henry Miller: Everyman.” Iconograph, no. 3 (fall 1946).

Woster, Carol. “Ruth Seliger of Mount Vernon: Scene Design Intrigues Artist.” The Daily Argus, August 19, 1967.

Kraskin, Sandra. Indian Space Painters: Native American Sources for American Abstract Art. New York: Baruch College Gallery, 1991.

Rushing, W. Jackson. “Review: Semeiology.” Art Journal 51, no. 2 (summer 1992).

Jacobs, Joseph. “Indian Space Painters.” Art & Antiques, February 2007.

Selected Museum Collections

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Special thanks to Kara Spellman and Hollis Taggart Gallery for compiling this biography and for many of the art photographs.