Ruth E. Frisbie Papers
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Frisbie, Ruth E.
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content: Ruth E. Frisbie papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1946-1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.frisruth, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Eight mixed-media scrapbooks created by Ruth E. Frisbie concern her interest and involvement in the art world and art news of Cleveland, Ohio. The scrapbooks are arranged chronologically and include clippings, exhibition announcements and catalogs, programs, brochures, and scattered correspondence. Most of the material concerns the Ten-Thirty Gallery, the Parma Art League, the Women's Art Club, the Composers and Authors Association of America, and other organizations. Clippings are from Cleveland-area newspapers on Cleveland artists and art events, sometimes involving Ruth Frisbie. Some materials are annotated with notes from Frisbie giving context to her friendships and association with Cleveland-area artists, the Cleveland Museum of Art and The May Show, and other arts organizers. Also found is a resume and photograph of Frisbie.

Of note is an exhibition announcement for Frisbie's solo show at the Downtown Gallery in the mid-1950s found in Scrapbook 6. Other material directly relating to Frisbie's work includes a price list for enamels exhibited at the Ohio State Fair and Frisbie's design for a cover for a Christmas service program in Scrapbook 8. Scrapbook 7 contains articles concerning her trip with News Friendship Tour, a group of Cleveland-area artists who toured Europe. 

Clippings and exhibition announcements are found for Marion Bryson, Kae Dorn Cass, Edris Eckhardt, Doris Morrison, William Sommer, Hazel Janicki Teyral, John Teyral, and Sandor Vago, among many others. Some clippings were kept on Frisbie's former art students.