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| Based in Brunswick, Maine, Ruth Hammond became a well-known watercolor painter based in Brunswick, Maine. She was a student at Mount Holyoke College and studied art in Rome, Italy with Dante Ricci. In 1940, she was active in St. Augustine, Florida where an art colony was forming.
Memberships included the Springfield Art League in Massachusetts; Portland Museum of Art in Portland Maine; Rockport Art Association and North Shore Artists Association; Copley Society and Independent Artists in Boston; Ogunquit Art Association in Ogunquit, Maine and the Maine Watercolor Society; National Association of Women Artists; and St. Augustine, Florida Art Club.
Memberships were the Society of Independent Artists, 1938; National Association of Women Artists, 1943-45; North Shore Artists Association; Rockport Art Association, annually; St. Augustine Art Club; New Haven Paint & Clay Club, 1943; Alliance and St. Petersburg (Florida ) Art Club.
Sources:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Robert Torchia, Lost Colony: The Artists of St. Augustine, 1930-1950
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