Government Art Database

I remember seeing this link before.  It is database of government owned artwork tracked by the General Services Administration.  It doesn't look like a very modern database and I seem to remember it having a picture before.  I wonder if it is the same This Rise as this one from 1962:

Found on Craigslist in Santa Monica

I did a search the other day and found this on craigslist.  It is a Ruth Dicker painting called Guaymas from 1964:

I'll update this post if I get any more information.

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!

Additional Postcards

I found two additional postcard styles that I hadn't scanned yet.  Here they are:

Drummer from 1995:

and Les Fleurs De Le Soleil from 1991:

Nut Tree and Coffee Tree Menus

I have a couple of Nut Tree and Coffee Tree menus featuring Ruth Dicker's work. I think that some of them were used during specific shows, but I also seem to remember the Coffee Tree always having her menus. Here they are:

Left to right are a Nut Tree menu dated January, 1986, a Nut Tree menu dated Winter 1987, and a Coffee Tree menu dated August 1990. Note that the cover of the first menu is a close-up of a painting titled Snow Birch and was also available as a poster. The insides of the two Nut Tree menus have a series of black and white paintings that Ruth did. I have some photos of other paintings from that series of black and white paintings here, here, and here.

I will try to make some time to scan some of the inside pages as well, they are very nice. If there are other Ruth Dicker menus out there, let me know.

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.