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RYAH LUDINS (1896-1957)
Industrial Landscape. Charcoal on paper. 403x493 mm; 15 7/8x19 3/4 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto. Circa 1935.
Provenance: private collection, South Carolina.
Ludins worked as a muralist for the WPA Federal Art Project in New York. She first became interested in mural painting while touring Europe and afterwards travelled to Mexico to join the muralist movement. After her return and her subsequent employment by the WPA, Ludins completed murals for Bellevue Hospital in New York and the historic post office in Cortland, New York commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
