Ruth Armer papers
name: label: Creator
content: Armer, Ruth, 1896-1977
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- San Francisco
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- California -- San Francisco
label: Occupation
content: Collectors -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women educators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Ruth Armer donated her papers to the Archives of American Art in 1974. Additional material was donated by John and Robert Brantsen in 1986.
creator: label: Creator
content: Armer, Ruth, 1896-1977
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content: Ruth Armer papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of painter Ruth Armer measure 0.6 linear feet and date from 1911 to 1976. The collection includes scattered documentation of Armer's career through printed bookplates, biographical material, correspondence, personal business records, photographs, printed material, a scrapbook, and writings and notes.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ruth Armer (1896-1977) was a painter active in San Francisco, California.

Armer studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (San Francisco Art Institute) and in New York City with Robert Henri, George Bellows, and John Sloan. During her career she worked as a commercial illustrator as well as a landscape and portrait artist. In the late-1930s she experimented with abstraction, a tendency reinforced by contact with the California School of Fine Arts abstract expressionist movement in the late-1940s. 

Armer taught for years in the Bay area and was an active exhibiting artist until her death.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1911-1976
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.armeruth
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection received a preliminary level of arrangement after donation and was partially microfilmed on reels 2200 and 4046. The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Jayna Josefson in 2022 with support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: The collection is available on 35mm microfilm reels 2200 and 4046 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Researchers should note that the arrangement of material described in the container inventory does not reflect the arrangement of the collection on microfilm.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of painter Ruth Armer measure 0.6 linear feet and date from 1911 to 1976. The collection includes scattered documentation of Armer's career through printed bookplates, biographical material, correspondence, personal business records, photographs, printed material, a scrapbook, and writings and notes.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Archives of American Art also holds an oral history interview with Ruth Armer conducted by Paul Karlstrom on 1974 August 14.