23 Facts About Ryah Ludins

Ryah Ludins was a Ukrainian-born American muralist, painter, printmaker, art teacher, and writer.

Ryah Ludins made murals for post offices and other government buildings during the Great Depression and obtained commissions for murals from Mexican authorities and an industrial concern.

Ryah Ludins exhibited her paintings widely but became better known as a printmaker after prints such as "Cassis" and "Bombing" drew favorable notice from critics.

Ryah Ludins taught art in academic settings and privately, wrote and illustrated a children's book, and contributed an article to a radical left-wing art magazine.

Ryah Ludins exhibited in New York galleries, including the Morton, Milch, Downtown, and Willard, as well as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ryah Ludins held memberships in the New York Artists Equity Association and American Artists' Congress as well as the Mural Artists Guild and the National Society of Mural Painters.

For much of her career, Ryah Ludins lived and worked in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel during the colder months and spent her summers in a studio at her parents' home in Putnam Valley, New York.

Immediately after graduating from Columbia Teachers College in 1922, Ryah Ludins took a position teaching elements and principles of design in the Department of Home Economics at the North Carolina College for Women, Greensboro.

Also in the late 1930s, Ryah Ludins joined with architects, landscape designers, mural painters, and sculptors in an informal collaborative to design buildings for the 1939 New York World's Fair.

The group was led by Anton Refregier and, in addition to Ryah Ludins, it included Philip Guston, Eric Mose, and Seymour Fogel.

In 1937 Ryah Ludins exhibited with other Federal Art Project muralists in an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art and three years later she showed at the Whitney Museum with other members of the National Society of Mural Painters.

Ryah Ludins produced oil paintings on canvas, watercolors, lithographs, and etchings.

Ryah Ludins made murals via oil on canvas, oil on plaster, fresco, mixed media, and painted wooden relief.

Ryah Ludins was not known for portraiture, but rather for village and harbor scenes, pictures showing groups of people at work and play, and industrial subjects.

Ryah Ludins was considered to be a modernist with a delicate touch who was capable of showing "surging movement" in her work.

In 1931 Ryah Ludins wrote and illustrated a children's book entitled Wonder Rock.

Ryah Ludins wrote an article for the February 1937 issue of the radical magazine, Art Front.

At the time she wrote, Ryah Ludins was a member of the Art Front editorial board along with Jacob Kainen, Mitchell Siporin, Charmion Von Wiegand, and others.

Ryah Ludins was born on March 28,1896, in Mariupol, a city in south-eastern Ukraine.

Ryah Ludins's father was David George Ludschinski and her mother was Olga Richman Ludschinski.

David Ryah Ludins was characterized as a "Russian Jewish intellectual" when the socialist Zionist, Nachman Syrkin, first encountered him and his family in 1913.

Ryah Ludins was a teacher in New York City public schools.

In 1934, Ryah Ludins married a Mexican named Juan de Fuentes, but the marriage lasted only a few months.