Oral history interview with Ruth Penington

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Oral history interview with Ruth Penington

1983 Feb. 10-11

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An interview of Ruth Penington conducted 1983 Feb. 10-11, by LaMar Harrington, at the artist's home in Seattle, Wash., for the Archives of American Art's Northwest Oral History Project. Penington speaks of her family background; her early interests; her education; the beginnings of the Northwest Printmakers; teaching at the University of California; the change in the definition of art in universities; the influence of Gilbert Rohde; her philosophy of teaching, of art, and of commercialism; various shows and exhibitions she has been involved in; her work methods and her current work.

Sound recording: 3 sound cassettes.Transcript: 63 p.

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Northwest Printmakers.

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Penington, Ruth, 1905-

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Ruth Penington (1905- ) is an educator, metalworker, and printmaker from Seattle, Wash. From the description of Oral history interview with Ruth Penington, 1983 Feb. 10-11 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397116 Mrs. Pennington was partial owner of the Silver Queen Mine, Mojave, Calif., which was purchased by Consolidated Goldfields of South Africa. The sale was the subject of a lawsuit in 1934-35. From the description of Ledger of Ruth Holmes...

Northwest Printmakers.

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Harrington, LaMar, 1917-

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LaMar Harrington joined the staff of the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in 1956 and became associate director before her position was terminated in 1975. She worked from 1975 to 1978 in the Libraries' University Archives and Manuscripts Division on the Archives of Northwest Art, which she began at the Henry Art Gallery. Harrington did freelance curatorial consulting from 1977 to 1985. During this time, she authored A History of Ceramics in the Pacific Northwest, one of the def...

Rohde, Gilbert, 1894-1944

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