Garden Terrace Room at Yosemite Lodge

OK, after a quick panic, the Yosemite Mural has been found safely at the Yosemite Lodge.  It is in the Garden Terrace room and based on these pictures, it might actually be a better location because more people will see it and enjoy it for meetings and festive occasions.

Slide Scanning Complete

I just got back a set of over five hundred slides that I had scanned.  There is a great variety of different periods and styles.  There are paintings that I know and paintings I have never seen before.  It will take a while to go through and crop and adjust them, but here is a small sample to start with.

I believe this was a commission for a Sonoma County bank that has since closed.

This is the mural that now hangs in the Yosemite Arts Center before it made its trip from Santa Rosa.

This might be the Marin Civic Center show.

A large six-panel polyptych.

I think this is the Ampex show in Redwood City, CA (with artist).

An early abstract style.

A wood construction.

A classic tree painting.

Yosemite Bank

Before it was the Yosemite Art and Education Center, the building was a bank. I think it was both a Bank of America and a Wells Fargo Bank. It was one of the banks that actually commissioned the mural. I found this old photo and scanned it. Sorry for the low quality.

Recent Discoveries

I'm glad that I started this blog, I have received a couple more interesting emails here at ruthdickerpaintings@gmail.com.

After visiting Yosemite and telling the people in the art center about the Ruth Dicker painting they had, I was pleased to see it mentioned in a flyer:

The main room houses the building’s most unique feature: a tremendous wooden mural by famed California artist Ruth Dicker (1919-2004).

I also found this sparse mention of an auction that occurred back in 1991.

Yosemite Art and Education Center

When I was growing up, I always remember hearing about the mural that Ruth Dicker painted in Yosemite.  I heard about how she and her husband Ralph stacked the panels in a pickup truck and drive them to Yosemite.  Not a small feat when the painting totals eight feet tall and twenty-four feet wide.  In the summer of 2007, I finally made it to Yosemite Valley and found the painting in the Yosemite Art and Education Center.  They didn't know much about it, but were very excited to learn.  If you are in the valley, you should check it out.  This link talks a little about the Yosemite Art and Education Center and you can even see a little bit of the painting.  The full think looks like this:

More information is available here.