Ruth E. Frisbie papers
name: label: Creator
content: Frisbie, Ruth E.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Ohio -- Cleveland
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- Ohio -- Cleveland
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1963 by Ruth E. Frisbie.
creator: label: Creator
content: Frisbie, Ruth E.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ruth E. Frisbie papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of arts group organizer, painter, and sculptor Ruth Elizabeth Hauck Frisbie (1906-1986) date from 1946 to 1963. Found are eight mixed-media scrapbooks concerning the arts scene and art news of Cleveland, Ohio. Printed materials from Ten-Thirty Gallery, the Women's Art Club of Cleveland, Parma Art League, and the Composers and Authors Association of America date from Frisbie's leadership and association with those groups. Also found are clippings about Frisbie and the larger art scene around Cleveland, a resume, and a photograph of Frisbie with her artwork.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ruth Elizabeth Hauck Frisbie (1906-1986) was a painter, sculptor, and arts organizer in Cleveland, Ohio. Frisbie held a lifelong interest in art and studied formally after the birth of her child at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in the early 1940s. She moved to Bay Village, Ohio in 1945 and became involved in the art world of Cleveland as an executive committee member of Ten-Thirty Gallery, the president of the Women's Art Club of Cleveland, and later a founder of the Parma Art League. Later in her career, Frisbie taught art at the Parma City Schools and through an in-home studio.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1946-1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.frisruth
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the pre-existing microfilm arrangement, the collection is arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was microfilmed on Reel D135 and was returned to Ruth E. Frisbie after filming. The microfilm was described in a finding aid by Jayna Josefson in 2025 and the microfilm was digitized in 2024 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Collections Information System (CIS) IRM Pool Fund.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The collection has been microfilmed on reel D135. The microfilm has been digitized and is available on the Archives of American Art website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to lender, Ruth E. Frisbie, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of painter, sculptor, and arts group organizer Ruth Elizabeth Hauck Frisbie (1906-1986) date from 1946 to 1963. Found are eight mixed-media scrapbooks concerning the arts scene and art news of Cleveland, Ohio. Printed materials from Ten-Thirty Gallery, the Women's Art Club of Cleveland, Parma Art League, and the Composers and Authors Association of America date from Frisbie's leadership and association with those groups. Also found are clippings about Frisbie and the larger art scene around Cleveland, a resume, and a photograph of Frisbie with her artwork.