Here's another photo from a fan.  I might have a slide of this somewhere.  I'll update the posting if I can fine the name and year.

All in the family

A fan sent in a picture of a Ruth Dicker painting and said there are more in her family.  She is going to send more pictures soon.  This painting was purchased at the Nut Tree.

Here is Winter Sky - Deveaux from 1989.

Fragrance of Nature

A Ruth Dicker fan from the Pacific Northwest sent in this photo.  The painting is called Fragrance of Nature and it is from 1963.  It is a nice example of mid-century modern style.

Morning Sun

Another fan sent me some pictures recently and a good story to go with them.

... my wife and I purchased what we thought was a folk art painting from an antique store (somewhere on the San Francisco peninsula, I seem to recall). One house move later and the painting got stacked behind some other picture frames. I just ran across it today and noticed it was signed. I decided to Google the artist's name. Back of the painting also has a printed form that reads:

RUTH DICKER

“Morning Sun”, 19?? (date is not legible)

12”x12”

hand print/mixed media

Here are the pictures:

A very nice piece. A hand print means Dicker constructed the three dimensional trees and then before or after painting them, she printed the designs onto other pieces of wood or paper. This particular design actually looked pretty familiar to me, so I went digging into my photos. Here are The Walnut Tree #3 and The Walnut Tree #4 from 1992:

There is a chance that Morning Sun and The Walnut Tree #3 are actually the same painting, or they are just very similar prints. I think I have even seen more versions of this particular painting, but I will have to search around for them. The torn label on Morning Sun is also likely read 1992.

Flags of Autumn

I was very excited to be contacted by another Ruth Dicker admirer recently. She shared this picture of Flags of Autumn from 1983. It is 3 x 4 feet in size.

Looking through my records, it appears to have originally be shown at the Piper Sonoma Cellars in Windsor, CA, also in 1983.

Another Fan

The same day I noticed the paintings for sale on ebay, I received an email with these pictures and a nice story to go along with them. Keep those pictures coming!

Woods at Yonalassee from 1970:

Swedish Fans

A man wrote me from Sweden saying he had traveled to the United States many times to visit his sister in Palo Alto.  He met Ruth a couple of times starting in 1962.  He even has a couple of Ruth Dicker paintings!

Orchard from 1961:

I Walked in the Woods One Day from 1964:

More Ruth Dicker Fans

Getting emails from Ruth Dicker fans is great.  The latest contributer has some amazing pieces:

Autumn Moon from 1965:

Le Lac Muet from 1981:

River Woods from 1979:

River Woods actually matches a scanned slide that I have.  I'm not sure if the painting was re-done since the slide was taken or if the slide has deteriorated in the past 30 years.

Keep sending me pictures fans!

More Found Paintings

I got another email recently with some great Ruth Dicker painting pictures.  I added some pictures to the private collections section of my photos site.  Here they are:

Snow Woods, 1962:

Off Rollo Road, 1970:

Fragment of August Hill, 1969:

An interesting part of the email was that I actually had a photo of "Snow World" from a scanned slide that I have here.  Written on the slide was "Der Schnee Wald" instead of "Snow World", but I am pretty sure those are the same.