Figures
1981.07
1953 was a turning point in Ruth Wainwright’s artistic
practice. Her studies under Hans Hoffmann allowed her to
turn from copying nature to the creation of plastic space,
enabling her to find and emphasize tensions within her
subject matter. While many of her contemporaries were
content with the dominant themes of representation in
regional art practices, Wainwright developed a style related
to American abstract expressionism and according to the Art
Gallery of Nova Scotia became a pioneering Maritime
Modernist.