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2004:

  1. An appreciation of artist Romare Bearden
    An appreciation of artist Romare Bearden

    with Frank Stewart, Branford Marsalis and Ruth Fine on Jan 22, 2004

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Ruth Fine is the curator of special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. As curator of modern prints and drawings at the National Gallery from 1988 through 2002, Fine organized exhibitions of work by several American artists. She was coordinator of the 1994 catalogue of Roy Lichtenstein?s prints and co-coordinator of the 1999 Georgia O’Keeffe catalogue, a project undertaken in conjunction with the Georgia O?Keeffe Foundation. Fine has contributed numerous essays to exhibition catalogues ranging in subject from the art of Richard Diebenkorn and James McNeill Whistler to Tyler Graphics, Ltd. and The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, among others. From 1972 to 1980, Fine served as curator of Lessing J. Rosenwald’s collection of prints and drawings.

Fine is also a painter/printmaker whose work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum Library, London, the Museum of the Book, The Hague, and the National Library of Canada, as well as Columbia University, Bryn Mawr College, Dartmouth College, the Boston Public Library, and I.B.M. She has illustrated five limited-edition books, lectures frequently, and has taught studio art at the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), Beaver College (now Arcadia University), and the University of Vermont.

Source - National Gallery of Art Press Office http://www.nga.gov/press/2005/releases/rothko/fine.shtm