Lot 610: Ruth Burden (British, b.1925) Contemplation, oil

Ruth Burden (British, b.1925) Contemplation, oil on canvas, 70 x 90ccm. William Scott regarded Ruth Burden as one of his star pupils. Ruth Burden was born and educated in Worcester. She studied at the Birmingham College of Art, 1945-50 under Fleetwood Walker and Katherine Fryer. She later studied and taught briefly at Bath Academy of Art (Corsham), 1950-51, under William Scott and Peter Potworowski. Ruth Burden later taught in Warwickshire and Oxfordshire. Her exhibitions include group shows at New English Art Club, Royal West of England Academy, Royal Society of Artists Birmingham and the Women's International Art Club of which she was an elected member. She has loaned pictures to the Arts Council, who exhibited her work in various group shows, including the Young Contemporaries and Pictures for Schools, and recently had a very successful exhibition at Duncan Campbell Fine Art in London in 2002