Biography
Ruth Fine
Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, is the lead author of a multi-volume catalogue raisonné of Mark Rothko 's works on paper, projected for publication by the National Gallery in 2014. She is also engaged with research on Jasper Johns ' personal archive of proofs for his prints, recently acquired by the National Gallery, where selections were on view in the 2010 exhibition Editions with Additions: Working Proofs by Jasper Johns. Fine recently coordinated The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States project, in which the New York collectors made gifts to one museum in each of the fifty United States, following their generous donations to the National Gallery.
From 1980 through 2002, as curator of modern prints and drawings at the National Gallery, Fine organized exhibitions of work by American artists including Romare Bearden, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, John Marin, and Georgia O'Keeffe; contemporary print-publishing workshops Crown Point Press, Gemini G.E.L., and Graphicstudio, U.S.F.; and the collections of Lessing J. Rosenwald and Dorothy and Herbert Vogel.
Fine was coordinator of the 1994 catalogue raisonné of Roy Lichtenstein 's prints (revised 2002) and co-coordinator of the 1999 Georgia O'Keeffe catalogue raisonné, a project undertaken in concert with the Georgia O 'Keeffe Foundation. She has contributed essays to catalogues for exhibitions of art by Mel Bochner, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Rauschenberg,
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