Update to Les Arbres dans L'Hiver

Over a year ago, it was noted that this painting sold and we asked "Who was the lucky buyer?"

It seems that it has shown up again on Ebay and the current link is here.

Updates

It has certainly been a strange year and we hope everyone is staying safe in the world, but we have a handful of updates.

A previously seen painting has now showed up on eBay.  Check out Les Arbres dans L'Hiver.

Another fan found a really nice minimalist piece and sent along this photo:

Also, in what was a very unexpected surprise, a Ruth Dicker painting appeared in this Japanese food commercial:

Solano Collects at Vacaville Museum

I found a recent article referencing Ruth Dicker paintings appearing at the Vacaville Museum for a show titled Solano Collects.  I couldn't seem to find any pictures on the museum website.  Then, I found another article that does show six paintings together on a wall together.  I might need to pay a visit.  Article excerpt below:

Since October 5, the Vacaville Museum at 213 Buck Avenue has been featuring an amazing exhibit of 30 collections belonging to Solano County residents.

A jury panel of three judges — a gallery owner, a museum exhibitor and an artist — selected the 30 from 45 submissions to comprise the Solano Collects exhibit. Each collection is a treat.

...

Dicker is known for her California landscapes in her hallmark style of intentional paint splatters, vibrant acrylic colors as well as strips of wood covered in rice-paper to give dimensionality and texture. Her large paintings depicting the four seasons were in the dining room of The Nut Tree in Vacaville before it closed in 1996.

Update: According to the museum, the paintings are titled "Summer Plains", "Shadows", "Pine Forest", "Spring Oak with Lupine", "Annadel", and "Moon with Fog."   Some of the smaller paintings look like they are prints of other paintings, which means the artist did something like a block print of one painting and then filled in the rest with different color paints.

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.

Where is this Ruth Dicker Yosemite Mural?!

This 8x24 foot Ruth Dicker painting used to exist in Yosemite Village.  It started as a Wells Fargo Bank, but then turned into the Yosemite Art Center:



A few recent visits by friends couldn't locate the painting.  Some searching online came across the Merced Wild and Scenic River Comprehensive Management Plan with this blurb and an important section bolded:

Yosemite Village Day-use Parking
Under the Selected Action, the NPS will redesign the existing Yosemite Village Day-use Parking area and restrict all development to at least 150 feet away from the river’s ordinary high-water mark (Figure 1).The redesigned parking area will provide 750 parking spaces and a new comfort station. Northside Drive will be realigned to the south edge of the parking area where it will connect with Sentinel Drive and continue west. A new three-way intersection will be constructed connecting Sentinel Drive with the re-routed Northside Drive and the shuttle bus road into the Village. A roundabout will be constructed at the Village Drive/Northside Drive intersection to improve traffic flow. The Concessioner General Office, Valley Garage, and Art Activity Center will be removed. 

Construction activities at the Yosemite Village Day-use Parking area will result in direct, temporary and permanent losses of about 1.6 acres of federally protected wetlands. There will be an estimated 1.22 acres of direct impact to palustrine emergent wetlands adjacent to the Northside Drive and Sentinel Crossover intersection with new road and parking alignment. There will be an estimated 0.38 acres of direct impact to riverine intermittent wetlands flowing through the area.

Was this building mentioned the one that housed the painting?  Where is the painting now?  Is it elsewhere in Yosemite?  Is it in a private collection?  Was it destroyed?

Update: This San Jose Mercury News article seems to confirm:

In the name of restoring the park’s natural setting, a new proposal by the National Park Service would ban bicycle and horse rentals in Yosemite Valley and remove the ice rink at Curry Village. Swimming pools at the Yosemite Lodge and Ahwahnee Hotel would be torn out. Rafting rentals on the Merced River would end. The longest stone bridge in Yosemite Valley would be demolished. Even the Yosemite Art Activity Center, where families learn water colors, would go.

Update2: The painting has been found at the Yosemite Lodge, Garden Terrace conference room.  More later.

Les Arbres dans L'Hiver

It looks like there was an action in February of this year that I missed.  The painting is named Les Arbres dans L'Hiver and is from 1977.  Who was the lucky buyer?

Two New Ebay Paintings

It looks like the same seller just found two Ruth Dicker paintings in the Santa Cruz area, both from the 1960's.  One is more of a mid-century modern style, while the other shows early signs of Dicker's later tree works.

Untiled: https://www.ebay.com/itm/MID-CENTURY-MODERN-LISTED-ARTIST-RUTH-DICKER-18-X-36-OIL-PAINTING-ON-BOARD/333302258703?hash=item4d9a5cdc0f:g:BA0AAOSwO5JdXIgv

Summer Hill: https://www.ebay.com/itm/MID-CENTURY-MODERN-LISTED-ARTIST-RUTH-DICKER-OIL-ON-BOARD-1964-SUMMER-HILL/233318404662?hash=item3652dc5236:g:01QAAOSwTUpdXIlp

Happy Bidding.