At 90, Ruth Rippon joins fellow nonagenarians Wayne Thiebaud and Gregory Kondos as a Sacramento artistic treasure who has left an indelible mark on our city. Like her lifelong friend Peter Voulkos and ...

Ruth Duckworth, "Clouds Over Lake Michigan," detail (1976), ceramic; installation view in the Joseph Regenstein Library, 2023, the University of Chicago Public Art Collection (© Estate of Ruth ...

While the trend in ceramic sculpture has been toward the use of colorful glazes and busy detail, Ruth Duckworth has remained true to form. “Form is so much more important to me than color,” she said ...

In the spring of 1965, a few months after an exhibit of Ruth Duckworth’s work opened at the Renaissance Society gallery in Hyde Park–her first showing in this country–the German-born ceramic artist ...