Every week during the exhibit “Aurora’s Own Ruth Van Sickle Ford,” we will feature one of the more than two dozen watercolor and oil paintings on display from March 3-May 13, 2023, at the Pierce Art and History Center. Accompanying the images will be commentary by art...
Every week during the exhibit “Aurora’s Own Ruth Van Sickle Ford,” we will feature one of the more than two dozen watercolor and oil paintings on display from March 3-May 13, 2023, at the Pierce Art and History Center. Accompanying the images will be commentary...
Who was Ruth Van Sickle Ford? Ruth Van Sickle Ford (1897-1989) was an artist and educator. She owned the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and taught painting there and in Aurora to likely thousands of students. In addition, she was a prolific painter and exhibited widely,...
Take a look back at the 2022 exhibit Portraits of the Past. Harry H. Barber (1878-1948) William B. Greene (1886-1982) Harry H. Barber & William B. Greene; Oil portraits by James J. Ingwersen, 1966 Harry Barber & W. B. Greene were engineers at Aurora’s...
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