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RUTH LIGHT BRAUN.
Coney Island. 2 drawings. Charcoal on paper. Group of crowded beach goers. 286x223
mm; 11
1
/
4
x8
3
/
4
inches. Signed “Ruth” * Closer study of 8 sunbathers. 210x263 mm;
8
1
/
4
x10
3
/
8
inches. Signed “Ruth Light Braun.” Both mounted to board and taped to mattes.
Circa 1930.
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Brooklyn-born Ruth Light Braun (known as Ruth Light during her early career), was best known for her
striking portraits of American and Palestinian Jews but equally celebrated for her charming observations of
daily life in Manhattan and Brooklyn as in these scenes.She attended Cooper UnionArt College forWomen,
NewYork,worked as a freelance illustrator forThe NewYorker, and studied withWinold Reiss, the German-
American artist famous for his Art Deco-inspired portrait studies of American ethnic populations. Like him,
she was among the first to represent them in a dignified, realistic manner devoid of stereotypes.
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