Ruth Nickerson

Jennie Ruth Nickerson (November 23, 1905 – March 31, 1997) was an American sculptor who worked in stone carving. She made several works for the Federal Art Project and was a 1946 Guggenheim Fellow. Biography Early life and education Ruth Nickerson was born on November 23, 1905, in Appleton, Wisconsin. Art career In 1932, She also worked as a teacher at the Nicholas Roerich Museum (1933-1934), Westchester Art Workshop (1947-1968), and the National Academy School of Fine Arts (1979-1981), as well as the Grand Central School of Art and Scarsdale Art Guild. and American Oriental Rug Weaving (1941), a terra cotta sculpture at the Leaksville post office in Eden, North Carolina. Her work also appeared at the 1938 Whitney Biennial, as well as at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. In 1946, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for sculpture. She once received the National Sculpture Society Therese Wright Prize.

Nickerson died on March 31, 1997 at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York, aged 91. Her papers were later deposited at the Archives of American Art, including an unpublished memoir by her daughter Elizabeth Knudsen, The Stone Carver in the House (2005).