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Andrée Ruellan (American, 1905–2006)
Three Quinces, n.d.

Color monotype, 7 x 10 in.
Collection of The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. Gift of
the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2001.9.216

Andrée Ruellan was born to French parents in New York City.
A child prodigy, Ruellan was asked by Robert Henri to participate in a group exhibition with him at age nine. She went on to
study at the Art Students League of New York and in Rome
with Maurice Sterne. She and her widowed mother lived in
Paris from 1923 to 1929, and in 1925 she was given her first
solo exhibition at the Galerie Sacre du Printemps in Paris.
Ruellan later moved to Woodstock, New York, with her
husband, painter John W. Taylor, and joined the Woodstock
Art Colony. In 2005, in honor of her 100th birthday, Ruellan
was given a solo exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art
memorializing her travels in the South during the 1930s when
she completed a series of paintings of southern life. Precisely
when and where Ruellan took up the practice of making
monotypes is unknown, but she was likely introduced to the
medium when studying at the Art Students League. Ruellan
won numerous awards including a Guggenheim Foundation
fellowship in 1950.
NOTES:
DeLorme, “Andrée Ruellan,” 266.
Fox, “Andrée Ruellan, 101, a Painter of Her Century, Dies.”

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