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Ruth Edith Tuck OAM (22 July 1914 – 10 October 2008) was a modernist painter of South Australia, noted for joint exhibitions with her husband Mervyn Ashmore Smith (11 December 1904 – 18 March 1994), and her influence as a teacher of painting. The Ruth Tuck Art School, founded by her in 1955, continues to operate in Adelaide. She was related to the better-known Marie Tuck.
Ruth Tuck | |
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 "The Triple Mirror" self-portrait of Ruth Tuck | |
| Born | Ruth Edith Tuck 22 July 1914 Cowell, South Australia |
| Died | 8 October 2008 (aged 94) |
| Known for | Painting |
| Spouse |
Mervyn Ashmore Smith
(m. 1943) |
Ruth Edith Tuck was born on 22 July 1914[1] at Cowell, South Australia, a daughter of Arthur Edward Tuck (1855 – 8 April 1925) and his wife Minnie, née Wallis.[citation needed]
She studied painting under Dorrit Black and exhibited regularly with the Royal South Australian Society of Arts and was a foundation member of the Contemporary Art Society.[2]
She met Mervyn Smith in 1943 and married him on 15 October the same year;[3] they lived in Adelaide, then Mervyn moved to Newcastle, New South Wales in 1949, where he was employed as a County Council planning officer; she joined him few years later.[4] In 1953 they returned to Adelaide, where they remained and held numerous joint exhibitions of their watercolors, both modernist in outlook with Mervyn's work being generally characterised as the more ambitious.[5]
Her written work includes biographies of Mary Packer Harris and Marie Anne Tuck for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.[citation needed]
Ruth established the Ruth Tuck Art School in 1955.[6]
Tuck was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1981 for services to art.[1]
The Ruth Tuck Scholarship for Visual Arts was awarded by the state government via Carclew until 2016.[7][8]
Tuck died on 10 October 2008.[1]
The Ruth Tuck Art School continues to operate, at the Burnside Arts and Crafts Centre, in Hubbe Court, Burnside.[9]
Ruth was a granddaughter of noted Baptist minister Rev. Henry Lewer Tuck (11 September 1820 – 26 August 1880), an early immigrant to South Australia, whose brother Edward Starkey Tuck (13 March 1827 – 9 August 1898) was the father of Marie Tuck (5 September 1866 – 3 September 1947). See her article for more details of the Tuck family in South Australia.
Ruth had a son Mark in 1945[10] and twin daughters Michele and Angela in 1953.[11]
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