Ruth Newquist
Biography

Painting has been a life long journey for Ruth Newquist. Inspired by a childhood love of art, she attended Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, earning a BFA while studying with such great painters as Ranulph Bye, Reginald Marsh and Frank Reilly. She also attended the Art Students League in New York City.

Ruth Newquist says of her work,” Color is my focus – it creates the mood. And each one of my paintings has its own mood.” Ruth is known for her New York SoHo cityscapes as well as New England rural and urban landscapes. She is a signature artist member of the National Watercolor Society and an artist member of the Salmagundi Club in NYC as well as the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club and Allied Artist Of America in NYC, the North Shore Art Association in Gloucester, Massachusetts and the Connecticut Watercolor Society.

Ruth was featured on the “Watercolor Pages” in American Artist Magazine June 1999. She is also represented in Best of Watercolor III, a hard cover book published by Rockport Publishers in 1999 and in Splash 9 also a hardcover book published by North Light Books in the fall of 2006.

Ruth Newquist works out of her studio in Newtown, Connecticut. She exhibits her paintings throughout New England, Pennsylvania, New York and the West Coast. She has won many awards including the top watercolor award in the 2001 Salmagundi Club Annual Members Exhibition and the Thomas C. Picard Award for an oil painting in the 2002 Salmagundi Club Annual Members Exhibition.