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RUTH LIGHT BRAUN. Coney Island. 2 drawings. Charcoal on paper. Group of crowded beach goers. 286x223 mm; 11 1/4x8 3/4 inches. Signed "Ruth" * Closer study of 8 sunbathers. 210x263 mm; 8 1/4x10 3/8 inches. Signed "Ruth Light Braun." Both mounted to board and taped to mattes. Circa 1930.
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 Union Art College for Women, New York, worked as a freelance illustrator for The New Yorker, and studied with Winold 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.
