Ruth Dicker

Ruth Doerschuk Dicker (March 9, 1919 - December 2, 2004) was a California painter of landscapes.

Dicker was born in Niagara Falls, New York. She went to Salem Academy and then attended the College of William and Mary where she received a degree in painting and art history. She moved to New York City where she studied at the Art Students League, worked as an illustrator and fashion model, and met her husband. They soon moved to Palo Alto, California where they raised two sons. In 1970, Dicker moved to Santa Rosa, California where she would find her most recognizable style in depicting the landscapes of Sonoma County.

Throughout her career, her work was shown in galleries, museums, corporate offices in New York City and in and around the San Francisco Bay area. She participated in one woman or group shows at the Legion of Honor, the Oakland Museum of California, Santa Clara University, and Stanford University. Her style includes vibrant acrylic colors, splatters of paint and strips of wood covered in rice-paper to give dimensionality and texture that leaps off the panel.

After her husband died in 1980, she enjoyed the most productive years of her career. In 1983, Dicker traveled with a group of California artists led by Earl Thollander to China. She enjoyed the art of the Southwest and often traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Her most well-known paintings are likely the large paintings depicting the seasons in the dining room of The Nut Tree (now closed) in Vacaville, California and a 24 foot wide mural at the Yosemite Art Center.

elected Shows

*Impressions of Trees - Stanford Research Institute - 1961
*the little studio, New York City - 1962
*Gallery House, Menlo Park, California
*Quay Gallery, Tiburon, California
*Forth Winter Invitational Exhibition - Legion of Honor - 1962
*The Nut Tree - 1964
*San Francisco Women Artists Fortieth Annual Exhibition - San Francisco Museum of Art - 1965
*85th Annual Exhibition - San Francisco Museum of Art - 1966
*The Nut Tree - 1974
*Painted Wood Constructions and Assemblages - The Marshall Gallery, Tomales Bay, California
*Arlene Lind Gallery, San Francisco, California
*Piper Sonoma - 1983
*Marin County Civic Center - 1983
*California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, California - 1985
*Spring Invitational Exhibition - Alden Arts Gallery, Santa Rosa, California - 1986
*An Exhibition of bas relief painting - Sterling Vineyards - 1987
*Vineyards and Beyond - Kaiser Arts Center Gallery, Oakland, California - 1987
*The Nut Tree - 1989
*The Nut Tree - 1993
*Marin County Civic Center - 1994
*Indian Summer - Danny & Company, Santa Rosa, California - 1995
*Mixed Media Paintings - Solano Bank - 2001
*Nut Tree Artist Reunion - Vacaville Museum - 2003
*12th ROTATION, Honoring the Art of Ruth Dicker - Next Level Communications - 2003