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January Issue 2007
Sunset River Marketplace in Calabash, NC, Offers Works by Ruth Rosenthal
A colorful
exhibition of paintings, prints and enamel works will be featured
at Sunset River Marketplace in Calabash, NC, in a special show
titled Retrospective: Ruth Rosenthal on view from Jan.
6 through Feb. 11, 2007.
A native of New York City, Rosenthal, who passed
away in 2005 at the age of 89, is best known in the mid-west.
The longtime Ohio resident was featured in a show at the Columbus
Cultural Arts Center in Columbus, OH, shortly before her death.
Many of the same pieces will be included in this exhibition. Curated
by Debra Minor, the artist's daughter, Retrospective is
a collection of oils, watercolors, pastel, monoprints, enamels
and ceramic sculpture pieces.
The range of work is especially surprising because during her
lifetime, Rosenthal never considered herself an artist, always
a student. Minor says her mother kept her hundreds of works packed
away in closets or piled in drawers. "Her pieces became her
children," said Minor, an only child, "She never showed
or sold them, but she was so involved with the culture of art
... I felt it was time for her pieces to be shown, so people could
know her and know her work."
You can see the influence of Picasso in Rosenthal's drawing style. A love of the old masters is also evident in her enamel pieces. Her oil paintings, however, reveal a modern leaning.
Rosenthal, who graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, with a degree in fashion design and illustration, became deaf a the age of 19, as a result of a fall at the art center. Her husband passed away as a young man, and the now deaf young woman found herself raising her daughter and running a fabric and drapery business by herself.
The collection is indeed a peek into the heart of soul of Rosenthal, despite the fact that we've never met her.
Also on view at the gallery is the exhibit, Local Colors, a group show of several members of the Waterway Art Association, includes two-dimensional works by Sharon Bowling, Nancy Guiry, Lynn Jerr, Gary Halberstadt and others. It runs through Jan. 5, 2007.
For more information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 910/575-5999 or visit (www.sunsetrivermarketplace.com).
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