Ruth E. Fine

Ruth E. Fine (born 1941) is an American painter, printmaker, museum curator, college instructor, and art historian. She was a curator at the National Gallery of Art from 1972 to 2012. She is currently the chair of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

Early life Fine was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1941. Her mother was Miriam Brown Fine, who graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1935. In 1961, she was a student at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She attended the Philadelphia College of Art, earning a BFA in 1962. While with the National Gallery of Art, she organized exhibitions on Romare Bearden, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Norman Lewis, Roy Lichtenstein, John Marin, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Fine is a painter and printmaker and illustrated five books.

Fine's artwork is in the collections of the Boston Public Library, Bryn Mawr College, Columbia University, Dartmouth Collge, The Hague, IBM Corporation, the Museum of the Book, the National Gallery of Art, the National Library of Canada, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Victoria and Albert Museum Library. Her papers are housed at the Smithsonian Institution as part of the Archives of American Art. Fine, Ruth and Moten, Fred et al. Frank Stewart's Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960’s to the Present. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2023. .