Ruth Abrahams (11 March 1931 – 8 August 2000) was a British artist.

Biography

Abrahams was born in

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in London. She studied art at

St Martin's School of Art Saint Martin's School of Art was an art college in London, England. It offered foundation and degree level courses. It was established in 1854, initially under the aegis of the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Saint Martin's became part of t ...

from 1951 until 1955 when she enrolled in the

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from where she graduated in 1959. During her time at the Royal Academy Schools Abrahams won a number of prizes including a Leverhulme Award, the Landseer Medal for Drawing and the David Murray Landscape Award. In 1960 she won the Harrogate Festival Painting Prize to attend the British School in Rome. Abrahams taught part-time at several art colleges including St Martins, Derby Lonsdale College, Loughborough College of Art and also at

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, and also exhibited in a number of group shows. These included exhibitions at the

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and with the

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holds examples of her work.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abrahams, Ruth 1931 births 2000 deaths 20th-century British painters 20th-century English women artists Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools Artists from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets People from Stepney