Ruth Isabelle Collet née Salaman (1909 – 2001) was a British painter, printmaker and illustrator.

Biography

Collet was born in

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in Hertfordshire into a talented family of artists and scientists. Her father was the botanist Redcliffe N. Salaman and her mother was the Hebrew scholar Nina Ruth Davis. After

Bedales School Bedales School is a co-educational, boarding and day independent school in the village of Steep, near the market town of Petersfield in Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley in reaction to the limitations of conventi ...

Collet studied at the

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in London from 1927 to 1930 and then trained in etching with S W Hayter in Paris between 1932 and 1935. She returned to London where she studied with

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and Kathleen Browne and was associated for a time with the East London Group. Collet exhibited at the

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, with the New English Art Club and the London Group and the Women's International Art Club. Works by her were shown at the Leicester Galleries and at Gainsborough's House in

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while she had a solo exhibition at the Annexe Gallery in London during 1982. Other solo shows were held at the Sue Rankin Gallery in 1987, at the Sternberg Centre for Judaism and at the Moss Gallery in 1991. The

Ben Uri Gallery The Ben Uri Gallery & Museum is a registered museum and charity based at 108a Boundary Road, off Abbey Road in St John's Wood, London, England. It features the work and lives of émigré artists in London, and describes itself as "The Art Museu ...

acquired a number of works by Collet in 1987. Colet used her etching and printmaking skills to produce a large number of illustrations for the Westminster Synagogue in central London and also to illustrate a number of dust jackets for books. She was married to the musician and music historian Robert Collet and for many years the couple lived at Northwood near London. A memorial exhibition of her work was held in 2003 at the Broughton House Gallery in Cambridge.

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Works by Collet in the Ben Uri collection
{{DEFAULTSORT:Collet, Ruth 1909 births 2001 deaths 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art English Jews English women painters Jewish painters Jewish women painters People educated at Bedales School People from Hertfordshire Ruth Collet

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