Ruth Sherwood (1889-1953)
Bobby, 1917
bronze
Collection of Robert Shea
Artist Details
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