Ruth Gikow

Girl's Head

Ruth Gikow's original lithograph, Girl's Head is printed upon rag paper and with full deckled margins as published in New York around 1960 in the limited edition of one hundred and twenty impressions. It is signed and numbered in pencil by the artist along the lower margin. Girl's Head represents a fine, original example of the portrait art created by the American artist, Ruth Gikow.

Girl's Head

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Title:	Girl's Head
Artist:	Gikow, Ruth (Ukraine, 1915 - New York City, 1982)
Date:	c. 1960
Medium:	Original Lithograph
Edition:	Limited edition of One Hundred and Twenty impressions, 5/120.
Note:	Ruth Gikow: One of the most highly regarded American women artists of the twentieth century Ruth Gikow emigrated to New York from the Ukraine at the age of five. At the age of seventeen she enrolled at the Cooper Union and studied under Austin Purvis, Jr., John Stewart Curry and Raphael Soyer. Her first solo exhibition took place in 1935 at the Eighth Street Playhouse in Greenwich Village.
	During the latter 1930's Ruth Gikow was extensively commissioned by the WPA (Works Progress Administration) for both her original prints and paintings. In 1939 she was also employed to paint murals at such locations as the children's ward at the Bronx Hospital, Riker's Island and the Rockefeller Center. Her art was exhibited at the Golden Gate Exposition, San Francisco, in that year.
	Throughout her career the primary subject of Ruth Gikow's art was humanity. The life of the poor and other victims of society was often portrayed in her art. Shortly after the end of the Second World War Gikow married another great artist of social conscience, Jack Levine. Girl's Head (also known as, Shouting Girl) is perhaps a portrait of the artist's daughter. Partly because of raising a daughter during the 1950's and 1960's, Gikow began to examine the unrest of youth in her art at this time.
	Ruth Gikow was a founding member of the American Serigraph Society. As well, she was a teacher at the American Artists School, New York. Her paintings, lithographs and serigraphs are now included in the following collections; The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio, includes an impression of Girl's Head in it's permanent collection.
Size:	10 1/2 X 9 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $365.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon rag paper and with full deckled margins as published in New York around 1960. Containing very faint light toning to the upper third of the paper, else in good condition throughout. Pencil signed and numbered, '5/120', by the artist along the lower margin. Girl's Head represents a prime, original example of the art of Ruth Gikow.
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