Ruth Butler Research Collection

Collection

Identifier: RBR

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs, journal articles, notes, photocopies of original archival documents, transcriptions, and other research material compiled by Ruth Butler. The majority of the material is focused on Auguste Rodin. The collection also contains files related to Butler's publication titled, "Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cézanne, Monet, and Rodin."

Dates

1990-2000

Creator

Butler, Ruth, 1931- (Creator, Person)

Language of Materials

English and French.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

The Ruth Butler Rodin Research Collection are the physical property of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Archives. The Museum holds literary rights only for material created by Museum personnel or given to the Museum with such rights specifically assigned. For all other material, literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for obtaining permission from rights holders for publication and for other purposes where stated.

Biographical / Historical

Ruth Butler was born in Buffalo, N.Y. She attended Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art. A part-time job at the Cleveland Museum of Art helped to determine her path in art history. Butler won a Fulbright in 1957 and traveled to Paris to begin research on a PhD dissertation on the early works of Rodin. She has since taught at Boston University, University of Maryland, College Park and is professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is author of several publications including Western Sculpture: Definitions of Man, Rodin in Perspective, Rodin Rediscovered, Rodin: the Shape of Genius and Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cézanne, Monet and Rodin.