American Artist. She attended the Mary A. Burnham School in Northampton, Massachusetts and studied at Barnard College, the National Academy of Design, and New York City’s Art Students League. She married Columbia University professor John W. Burgess, famed as a founder of Political Science as an academic discipline. Ruth Payne Burgess became an accomplished musician, and was especially known as a water colors and oils painter of portraits, still lifes, and genre work. Her portrait subjects included Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler, Lady Randolph Churchill, A. Barton Hepburn, Admiral Charles E. Clark, and Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia. She was a member of the National Association of Women Artists and President of the Woman's Art Club of New York and the Art Students League. She was also a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the American Water Color Society, the Society of New York Painters, and the Allied Artists of America. Her best known works were frequently shown at the National Academy of Design, including: “Young Woman with Violin and Hat” (1903); “Portrait Study of a Young Woman” (1915); “Green China Jar” (1924); “Floral and Chinoiserie” still life (1929); and “Maderno, Lake of Garda, Italy” (1931).
American Artist. She attended the Mary A. Burnham School in Northampton, Massachusetts and studied at Barnard College, the National Academy of Design, and New York City’s Art Students League. She married Columbia University professor John W. Burgess, famed as a founder of Political Science as an academic discipline. Ruth Payne Burgess became an accomplished musician, and was especially known as a water colors and oils painter of portraits, still lifes, and genre work. Her portrait subjects included Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler, Lady Randolph Churchill, A. Barton Hepburn, Admiral Charles E. Clark, and Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia. She was a member of the National Association of Women Artists and President of the Woman's Art Club of New York and the Art Students League. She was also a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, the American Water Color Society, the Society of New York Painters, and the Allied Artists of America. Her best known works were frequently shown at the National Academy of Design, including: “Young Woman with Violin and Hat” (1903); “Portrait Study of a Young Woman” (1915); “Green China Jar” (1924); “Floral and Chinoiserie” still life (1929); and “Maderno, Lake of Garda, Italy” (1931).
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