Ruth Penington
born Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1905; died Seattle, Washington, 1998
Penington received her BFA from the University of Washington in 1927 and her MFA in 1929. She then began teaching at the University of Washington becoming a full professor in 1951 and continuing until 1969. Penington also helped found the Northwest Designer Craftsman in 1954. There were retrospectives of her work at the Henry Art Gallery in 1962 and on her retirement in 1969.
(Source: Oral History on file with the Archives of American Art for their Northwest Oral History Project, conducted in 1983 by LaMar Harrington.)
For additional information see: https://www.ganoksin.com/article/master-metalsmith-ruth-penington/ [accessed August 2021]
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