Ruth Chaney
Ruth Chaney was an American artist known for her printmaking.Biography
Chaney was born in 1908 in Kansas City, Missouri. She create serigraphs for the Work Projects Administration. Chaney led a subway art division, one of the many committees set up by the Public Use of Arts Committee. The committee invited union members to create art that would stand up to the harsh conditions of the subway. She was included in the 1938 MoMA show "Subway art".
Chaney's work was also included in the 1940 MoMA show American Color Prints Under $10. The show was organized as a vehicle for bringing affordable fine art prints to the general public.
Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Art,
Chaney was the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship in 1942. She was a resident of the Adams studio at the MacDowell Colony.
Chaney died in 1973.
