RUTH FORREST Framed Pastel on Paper

RUTH FORREST Framed Pastel on Paper, no apparent signature to piece, verso reads ‘RUTH FORREST’ and artist bio, subjects are ballerinas in costume and pointe shoes warming up, frame measures 23 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches, window measures 17 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches, guilt ornate wooden frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed, double matted in linen, glass is loose in frame, not examined out of frame. Ruth Forrest was a native Rhode Island artist who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in the 1940s. Upon graduation she accepted a teaching position at the Cranston Schools where she remained for 38 years as an art instructor. During those productive years, Ms. Forrest explored printmaking and watercolor painting. The majority of her woodcuts, wood engravings, and linoleum cuts were executed within a ten year period between 1940 and 1950. These works were exhibited throughout the East Coast in juried exhibition, including the Art Association of Newport, Northeast Printmakers Association, the Print Club of Philadelphia, the