Ruby Williams
Ruby Williams | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ruby Curry June 9, 1928 Bealsville, Florida, U.S. |
| Died | August 8, 2022 (aged 94) |
| Style | Folk art |
| Children | 2 |
Ruby C. Williams (June 9, 1928 – August 8, 2022)[1] was an American folk artist.[2]
Life
[edit | edit source]Ruby Curry was born to Viola Curry Greene and Lawrence Curry in Bealsville, Florida,[3]where she grew up in a community formed by freed slaves, including Curry's great grandmother, Mary Reddick, who founded the community's school.[4]
Known as Miss Ruby, she was an evangelical minister in Paterson, New Jersey, for 25 years.[5] She adopted the name Williams following her marriage, which ended in a "bitter divorce" in the 1960s.[4]
After she returned to Florida in the 1980s,[4] she ran a produce stand and "walk in" gallery on State Road 60.[3] A self-taught artist, her career in folk art began in 1991 when her hand-painted signs, advertising her fruits and vegetables, were noticed by fellow folk painter, Rodney Hardee, who helped her to draw the attention of local media and institutions, including the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, mounted exhibitions.[4]
Williams' preferred medium was acrylic paint on plywood; initially, she used house paint for her creations. Her subject matter varied from scenes of everyday life to more whimsical or religious pieces.[4]
In 2000, 25 of Williams' paintings were exhibited at the Paterson Museum in New Jersey.[4]
In 2005 she received the Florida Folk Heritage Award[6] and was included in the show On Their Own – Selected Self-taught Artists at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum in Washington D.C.[7]
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External links
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- 1928 births
- 2022 deaths
- 20th-century African-American artists
- 20th-century American painters
- 20th-century American women painters
- 21st-century American painters
- 21st-century American women painters
- American folk artists
- Painters from Florida
- People from Hillsborough County, Florida
- Florida people stubs
- American women outsider artists
- American outsider artists