Armer, Ruth, 1896-1977

Ruth Armer Bransten (1896-1977) was a San Francisco painter who was a student, faculty member, and a trustee of the San Francisco Art Institute. Her artwork was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Smithsonian.

Painter; San Francisco, Calif.; b. 1896; d. 1977. Armer studied at the Mark Hopkins and later in New York City with Henri, Bellows, and Sloan. During her career she worked as a commercial illustrator as well as a landscape and portrait artist. In the late thirties she experimented with abstraction, a tendency reinforced by contact with the California School of Fine Arts abstract expressionist movement in the late forties. She taught for years in the Bay area and was an active exhibiting artist until her death.

Ruth Armer (1896-1977) was a painter and art collector from San Francisco, Calif.

Painter and art collector (San Francisco, Calif.); b. 1896; d. 1977.