Ruth A. Haven Gay (1911-1992)
Buffalo, NY Steel Mill, c. 1935
23 x 28 inches
Oil on Board
Signed Gay lower left

BIO
Ruth Gay (1911 – 1992)
A Painter, sculptor and educator, Ruth Gay (aka: Ruth A. Gay; aka: Ruth Haven; aka: Mrs. Harry Haven) was born in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada and died in Newfane, New York, U.S.A. She was a teacher and art department head at MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois. Her works were exhibited widely in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s at various major American venues including at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She appears to have lived much of her later life in Niagara Falls, New York. An example of her work is in the permanent collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.

She graduated from the Syracuse University College of Fine Arts, New York in 1934; and later studied at the Art students League of New York*; and, under Alexander Brook, Henry Varnum Poor and Charles Cutler. Gay was a teacher and art department head at MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois from 1938 to 1946; and, also taught painting and sculpture privately in Illinois, New Mexico and New York.

She was a member of the Patteran Society* (Buffalo, New York). She also exhibited with the American Federation of Arts* in 1940 and at the annual Western New York exhibitions at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo in 1948, 1949 and 1951.

Her works were included in other group exhibitions at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1937, 1938, 1939); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1938); the Worcester Museum of Art, Massachusetts (1938); the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, New York; the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York; the Riverside Museum, New York City; the Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico; and, at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

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