Ruth Duckworth Biography
Ruth Duckworth, born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1919, showed an interest in drawing from a young age. In the 1930s, due to Nazi persecution, he left Germany to move to England. During the period from 1936 to 1940, he attended the Liverpool College of Art, specializing in painting and drawing. Subsequently, she enrolled at the City and Guilds of London Art School in the 1940s, where she began to devote herself to the study of sculpture. Duckworth's early sculptural works showed a more representational bent, but he soon embraced abstraction and organic forms, influenced by both prehistoric and modern imagery, as well as nature and human relationships. After teaching for twenty-three years at the University of Chicago, Duckworth continued to exhibit and teach actively around the world in the 1970s and 1980s. In 2005, the Museum of Arts & Design in New York hosted a retrospective of his work. His creations are preserved in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC. In 1993, he received the gold medal from the National Society of Arts and Letters and, in 1997, the medal of Gold for Lifetime Achievement from the American Craft Council. Ruth Duckworth passed away in 2009 at her home in Chicago.
