With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Ruth W. Robinson
Painting/Drawing, Journalism/Non-Fiction
1913 – 2000
Locally significant artist working in a folk-art style. Her paintings are treasured and displayed in the Killingworth Town Hall and Library.
- Biography/Description of Work
Ruth Warner spent the first six years of her life in the Mount Carmel section of Hamden, until her farming family sought to escape suburban development and moved to Killingworth in 1919. She wrote and illustrated books about farm life in the early 1900s. Her line drawings and oil paintings display a naive folk art style. Warner married Frank Robinson in Boston c.1935, and the couple had returned to the farm by 1940.
- Sources view
- Killingworth Historical Society, Town Hall, Public Library
- Associated Resource(s)