RUTH MARTEN exhibits in Germany and in Paris, with galleries and museums that cater to work on paper. A lifelong New Yorker and lover of 20c. posters, 18c. engravings, books and Weimar art, she has been collaborating, via collage, with this genre of work for 50 years beginning with her own career as a book illustrator, the “Year in Provence” series being her best-known work from that period. She was given a retrospective exhibit in 2018 at the Max Ernst Museum and the new pictures she is showing with Schoolhouse is a continuation of the series “All about Eve” that was just shown at the Museum Villa Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany. These original 1923 heliogravures photographed in Paris and painted onto with gouache to both fool the eye and transform the story, are an ongoing fixation 3 years in and, hopefully, for years to come. Her early years were consumed with tattooing, in the 1970’s, illustration during New York’s last golden age of publishing, a short stint of fashion drawing for Ferragamo, Bergdorf Goodman, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar and, throughout, exhibiting her personal art in New York galleries. A love of drawing has been the navigator through these differing terrains. From 2008 to 2025 she has had 6 books of her work published.