Seventeen years ago, I went to visit some Ruth Dicker paintings at Empire College. I had seen them in her records of sale and was excited to visit because they were great examples and also because they were among the few that I knew could be visited in public. Two years ago, I found you could still see one of the paintings in a YouTube clip from the college. The link no longer works. Just recently, I actually learned that Empire College had partially closed and partially merged with The Monterey College of Law. Fortunately, one of the Ruth Dicker fans out there managed to acquire them back from the school and give them a great new home. Paintings like these coming on the market are something I am always on the lookout for, so even though I missed these, I'm very happy where they ended up!
Interestingly, the paintings were bolted together, when other times this size would be two panels hanging side by side. I'm also curious if Ruth herself painted over the labels or the school has for some reason. I can't remember seeing that elsewhere. The school had also mislabeled the paintings as being on canvas.
Another fan wrote in with Wildflowers II from 1974 recently. There were a few like this in a series, at the time.
