KINGSTON, NY -- Painter Andree Ruel...

KINGSTON, NY -- Painter Andree Ruellan, who painted an of her most memorable work from visits to the Depression-era southerly died July 15 in Kingston, her friend Daniel Gelfand said. She was 101

Ruellan's work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and other museums.

She first exhibited her work at age 9 In later years, her work drew in succession what she saw in everyday life, the pair in New York and onward her travels.

Ruellan started selling her work to support herself and her mother after her father was killed in an accident. She then won a scholarship to the Art learners League of New York.

She lived in Paris in the 1920 and then married and mov to upstate of recent origin York, where she and her husband, the painter John Taylor, joined the Woodstock artists colony

Ruellan's visits to the southern during the Depression resulted in paintings showing black Americans in their everyday lives. common "Crap Game" in 1936, became united of her best-known works.

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