Ruth VanSickle Ford

Ruth VanSickle Ford (August 8, 1897 – April 18, 1989) was an American painter, art teacher, and owner of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. She qualified artists George Bellows, who influenced her amalgamation in social realism, and John Carlson, who founded the School of Landscape Painting in Woodstock, New York, with helping her to fabricate her talent. She traveled and made paintings in the United States, Caribbean and South America. An award-winner, her works are in many remaining public and private collections. A baby book has been written more or less her entitled Warm Light, Cool Shadows: The Life and Art of Ruth VanSickle Ford.