SIGNED RUTH LUTMAN MIDCENTURY MODERN ENAMEL COPPER ART PLATE ABSTRACT SUN DESIGN

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SIGNED RUTH LUTMAN MIDCENTURY MODERN ENAMEL COPPER ART PLATE ABSTRACT SUN DESIGN:
$145.00

HERE’S A RARE SIGNED ORIGINAL VINTAGE LATE 1940S OR 1950S MIDCENTURY MODERN ABSTRACT ENAMEL-ON-COPPER PLATE CREATED BY PENNSYLVANIA ENAMELIST RUTH HESS LUTMAN!

Signed on the underside bottom with a black in-the-enamel signature “Lutman” -- this important example of Lutman’s enamel art measures approximately seven and five eighths inches (7 5/8”) in diameter by three quarters of an inch (3/4”) in height.

To this end, Lutman created a highly controlled abstract pattern on the plate’s interior loosely based on a Mesoamerican sun design and rendered in layered pink and light blue pastel enamels with black outlining and golden highlights! This enamel is wild! The underside of this rare original vintage midcentury modernist enamel-on-copper plate is counter-enameled in a light pastel green enamel.

Condition: This bowl is in beautiful condition except for two very small flea bites on the interior rim. Otherwise, it’s absolutely stunning!

Please Note: Because Lutman was a well-rounded metal artist who not only made enamels but also modernist silver jewelry, she most likely made the copper form of this bowl herself.

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RUTH HESS LUTMAN BIO

Ruth Hess Lutman (1905-1989) spent more than forty years from the 1940s through the 1970s as an artist who created modern enamels, modernist silver jewelry, and oil paintings. Lutman was also an art teacher for at least two decades during the 1950s and 1960s at Ambridge High School in Leetsdale, Pennsylvania, where she was head of the art department.

According to a rather lengthy article about Lutman published in the Beaver County Times newspaper on August 13, 1962, she received her training as an enamelist by studying with Kenneth Bates and Charles Bartley Jeffery, both of Cleveland, Ohio, as well as with Helen Worrall at the University of Tennessee and with Peter Ostuni in New York City. In addition, Lutman received both an undergraduate and graduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh and then continued post-graduate studies at the University of Tennessee and at Carnegie Tech.

Born and raised in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, various published articles indicate that Lutman lived and worked as an artist first in Leetsdale, Pennsylvania, then in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and finally after her husband George Louis Lutman died in 1966, she eventually moved to Fort Meyers, Florida. Simultaneously to the time she was located in Leetsdale and Sewickley, Pennsylvania, and possibly even afterwards when she to Florida, Lutman also had a home and studio called “Hilltop” located near Peterborough, Ontario, in Canada.

To this end, Lutman was a member of the Canadian Handicraft Guild (Ontario Chapter) and she won numerous awards for her enamels in both the Canadian National Exhibitions and Canadian International Exhibitions held in Toronto during the 1950s and early 1960s. Back in the United States, Lutman was a member of the Pennsylvania Craftsmen’s Guild and the Winston-Salem Art Guild in North Carolina. She regularly exhibited her work with the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, the Three Rivers Arts Festival, and the Glenshaw Artist’s & Craftsmen’s Guild.

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