Art on the Ridge

I just discovered an Art on the Ridge blog that links back to us and has a very nice description of growing up as a neighbor of Ruth's.

I was fortunate enough to grow up on Bennett Ridge, and one of my childhood influences was my neighbor and late artist, Ruth Dicker. Her unique style of painting, and her modern home, with mobiles and African masks on display, captured my imagination forever. Her bold, creative energy will be missed.

Ruth participated in Art on the Ridge for many years. The family participated on her behalf in 2005 with a mini-museum show in her house. We sold paintings, postcards, sketches, constructions and more. Everyone who left with a memory of Ruth looked happy that day. Below are pictures from the garage in 2003 and the house in 2005.

2003:

2005:

Painting Speadsheet

Ruth Dicker left behind detailed records of all of the paintings she sold but they weren't very well organized.  A few years ago, I went through the documents and created a spreadsheet.  I uploaded the spreadsheet to google docs here and created a form that will allow people to submit additions here.  The starting spreadsheet already has over 800 paintings.

Google News archive search

I read today that google was adding more scanned newspaper archives to its new search.

I did a search for "Ruth Dicker" and set the range to "All dates" and got some cool results.

Although I'm not sure if the results are part of the new feature, this is from the May 27th, 1962 New York Times:

RUTH DICKER (Little Studio): Paintings that reveal a sound artist when the get-rich-quick investments in picturesque and poetic are replaced by more...

There are also interesting results from the San Mateo Times and the Oakland Tribune in the 1960's.  I wonder what else is out there.