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Ruth VanSickle Ford (August 8, 1897 – April 18, 1989) was an American painter, art teacher, and owner of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. She credited artists George Bellows, who influenced her interest in social realism, and John Carlson, who founded the School of Landscape Painting in Woodstock, New York, with helping her to develop her talent. She traveled and made paintings in the United States, Caribbean and South America. An award-winner, her works are in many permanent public and private collections. A book has been written about her entitled ''Warm Light, Cool Shadows: The Life and Art of Ruth VanSickle Ford.'' ==Personal life and education== Ruth VanSickle was born August 8, 1897〔Jo Fredell Higgins. ''(Legendary Locals of Aurora )''. Arcadia Publishing; 2012. ISBN 978-1-4671-0035-9. p. 38.〕 in Aurora, Illinois〔 to Charles P. VanSickle and Anna Miller, who had immigrated from Germany in 1879. The VanSickles, who owned the restaurant The Rookery, were married about 1891.〔(Ruth VanSickle Ford. ) Fox Valley Arts Hall of Fame. Retrieved February 1, 2014.〕〔1910 census for Aurora Ward 1, Kane, Illinois; Roll: T624_296; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 0018; FHL microfilm: 1374309. Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.〕 She was an only child and grew up on the west side of Aurora, Illinois. VanSickle attended West Aurora High School.〔 After high school graduation in 1915, she enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied under Carl Newland Werntz and graduated in 1918.〔〔 VanSickle was a classmate of Walt Disney,〔Kenan Heise. ("Painter Ruth Van Sickle Ford, 91" ). ''Chicago Tribune.'' April 22, 1989. Retrieved February 1, 2014.〕 with whom she stayed in contact after school.〔Neal Gabler. ''(Walt Disney )''. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; 31 October 2006. ISBN 978-0-307-26596-8. p. 650.〕 She continued studying art and credited the influences of teachers John Carlson, founder of the School of Landscape Painting in Woodstock, New York, and social realist George Bellows.〔 She also studied at the Art Students League, Chicago and the New York Art Students League summer school.〔 She married civil engineer Albert (Sam) Ford in 1918 in a military ceremony in Houston, Texas. After the wedding he departed for service in the First World War. In 1918 Ruth traveled while pregnant to visit a relative in Utah and gave birth while on the trip to their only child, Barbara. After the war, the Fords settled in Aurora. Barbara graduated from West Aurora High School in 1936 and attended Wellesley College.〔〔 Ford did not consider herself a feminist, but believed that "if a woman has the desire to do something, she should do it." She used the name Ruth VanSickle Ford, when it was unusual to maintain the maiden surname, because she would often get notes intended for Ruth Ford, a local strip-tease artist.〔 In 1949, the Fords hired architect Bruce Goff, an instructor at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, to design and construct a house generally known as "Round House" at 404 South Edgelawn Avenue on Aurora's west side. Said to be modeled after a Tibetan nomad tent, it was also known as the Umbrella House, Mushroom House and Coal House and attracted curiosity-seekers. It was a balloon-like structure with walls made of coal and chunks of colored glass that had an open interior floor plan.〔〔Joseph Giovannini. ''(Materializing the Immaterial: The Architecture of Wallace Cunningham )''. Yale University Press; 2006. ISBN 0-9749565-2-X. p. 19–20.〕〔(''Van Sickle Ford At Home.'' ) The LIFE Picture Collection. January 1, 1951. Retrieved February 1, 2014.〕 In April 1951 it was described as a "Hollywood fantasy" and a "fine spangling lustrous toy" by the ''Architectural Forum'' magazine.〔Julie Decker; Chris Chiei. ''(Quonset Hut: Metal Living for a Modern Age )''. Springer; 1 January 2005. ISBN 978-1-56898-654-8. p. 96.〕 Tired of the attention that their home received, in 1961 they sold both house and moved to a conventional ranch house a few blocks away.〔 Sam Ford died in 1984.〔 Ruth VanSickle Ford died April 18, 1989, aged 91.〔(Ruth VanSickle Ford. ) Illinois Women Artists. Bradley University. Retrieved February 1, 2014.〕〔 A collection of her papers, photographs, letters, and other archived material was donated by her daughter, Barbara Turner, is held at the Archives of American Art.〔(Ruth Van Sickle Ford papers, 1924-1986 ). Archives of American Art. Retrieved February 1, 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruth VanSickle Ford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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