Ruth Sherwood

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  • Ruth
  • Sherwood
  • Albin Polasek
  • 1889
  • Chicago, Illinis
  • 1953
  • 1915-1923: 3146 Lake Park Ave., Chicago, Illinois

    1922: California
  • Chicago, Illinois

    Winter Park, Florida

    Chautauqua, New York

    after 1940: California
  • Sculptor
  • BA: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Student of Albin Polasek
  • 1913: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1914: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1915: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Marjorie, plaster; Mischief, plaster

    February 8-March 5, 1916: Twentieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; bookends: Little Cousin, cement; Mrs. R.R. Abrams and Grandchild, plaster

    February 1-March 4, 1917: Twenty-First Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Wall Fountain, plaster; Master Howard Hill, plaster; Marjorie Anne Herron, plaster

    February 14-March 17, 1918: Twenty-Second Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Bobby Nathan, bronze

    February 13-March 30, 1919: Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Chicago Association of Commerce Medal, bronze

    January 29-March 3, 1920: Twenty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; portrait head, plaster; Madonna, plaster

    1921: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Madonna, bronze; Mrs. Stanley G. Harris, bronze relief; Memorial plaque, to Miss Wilber, terra cotta

    1922: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; An Ocean Lullaby, bronze; Memorial for River Forest Women’s Club, bronze

    1922: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; St. Francis

    1923: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait Study Haradrath Nazumdar

    1923: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Romola

    1924: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Lake Shore Bank Medal for Architecture, plaster; Lake Shore Bank Medal for Architecture, bronze reduction

    1924-1925: Pennyslvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    1925: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Maxson, plaster

    1926: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; “He maketh me to lay down in green pastures,” bronze

    1928: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Figure for a fountain, David

    1929: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Garden Group, Florence, Louise and Ruth

    1930: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Portrait of Dean Shailer Mathews

    1931: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; fountain figure: Woodland Baby

    1933: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Cynthia

    1933, 1934: A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1939: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Fountain Figure; Tai-Yen

    Association of Chicago P&S

    Municipal Art League, Chicago, Illinois

    Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

    San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California

    Washington, D.C.
  • Johns Hopkins University

    Lake Shore Bank, Chicago, Illinois

    Law School, University of Wisconsin

    Portland Cement Association

    River Forest Women’s Club, River Forest, Illinois

    Spicer Memorial Fountain, Kenilworth, Illinois

    University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
  • 1920, 1921: Chicago Woman's Aid Prize:  Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1921: Lathrop Travelling Scholarship: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1921: Lathrop Foreign Fellowship

    1921: Adams Foreign Fellowship

    1922: Honorable Mention: Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings & Sculpture by American Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1928, 1930: Chicago Gallery Association

    1929, 1930:  Shaffer Prize: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    1936: Municipal Art League, Chicago, Illinois

    1939: Valentine Prize, Association of Chicago Painters & Sculptors
  • 1925-1929: Teacher, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    author: “Albin Polase, Carving His Own Destiny