Artist Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Fine, Ruth, 1941-
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content: Ruth Fine papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 15 Linear Feet (Box 5-18, 24; OV 25)
label: Extent
content: 14.11 Gigabytes (ER09-ER26)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1947-2016
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fineruth, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Gigabytes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Writing and exhibition files, correspondence, artwork, audio and visual recordings, printed and digital material, and photographs related to the various artists who Fine came into direct or indirect contact with throughout her career. Compared to other artists in this series, there is extensive material on the following artists: Romare Bearden, Kathan Brown and the Crown Point Press, George Bunker, Clifford Burke, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, James Magee (and his pseudonym, Annabel Livermore), John Marin, Benton Spruance, Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press, and James McNeil Whistler. Other notable artists are Stephen and Timothy Quay, better known as Brothers Quay, who were students of Fine's at the University of the Arts and frequently corresponded with her after moving to study at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1969. 

Also found in this series are files related to Ruth Fine's art career, her mother--artist, educator, and writer Miriam Brown Fine, as well as artist and educator George Bunker. Ruth Fine's material consists of correspondence, exhibition-related papers, awards, papers related to grants and residencies, images of artwork, and some printed material;  her mother's files include newspaper clippings, awards, images of artwork, and printed material; and George Bunker's files contain printed material, notebooks, drawings, lectures and lecture notes, and material related to his trust foundation.