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Ruth Reeves

Ruth Reeves

Artist

WA-00029072

Painting

Representation

None documented

1

Institutional Exhibitions

30

Works in Collection

61

Assets Indexed

1

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

80%

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ7383178 ULAN500265176

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Rugs from the Crawford Shops designed by American Artists

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1937

Field Verification (1 fields)

1 cross-verified · 0 single-source

BiographyMoMA· 93%✓

Source Registry (2)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/4843
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/ruth-reeves
Tier 1 · Institutional85%

About

Why this artist matters now

Ruth Reeves was an American textile designer and weaver whose abstract compositions translated modernist painting into woven and printed fabrics. Working from the 1920s onward, she developed a distinctive vocabulary of geometric and organic forms that bridged fine art and industrial design. Her work appeared in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and established her as a pioneering figure in American textile modernism during a period when the medium remained largely marginalized in fine art discourse.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 27d ago

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Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York

Canonical record

Artworks (30)

Carpet Panel for Radio City Music Hall

Carpet Panel for Radio City Music Hall

1950 · Cotton, acrylic, and jute, plain weave with supplementary backing wefts and supplementary pile wefts forming cut solid pile; edges bound with cotton, 2:2 twill weave tape; machine woven

120.8 × 88.6 cm (47 1/2 × 34 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Headpiece (page 31) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 1 7/16 x 5" (3.7 x 12.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Tailpiece (page 30) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

dia. plate 2 5/16" (5.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 42) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 7/16 x 5" (18.9 x 12.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Headpiece (page 1) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 1 7/16 x 4 15/16" (3.7 x 12.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 15) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 3/8 x 5" (18.8 x 12.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 9) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 1/2 x 5" (19 x 12.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 23) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 7/16 x 4 15/16" (18.9 x 12.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 61) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 7/16 x 5" (18.9 x 12.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · Illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

page (each approx.): 11 × 7 7/8" (28 × 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 104) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 7/16 x 4 15/16" (18.9 x 12.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 116) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 7/16 x 4 15/16" (18.9 x 12.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 127) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 7/16 x 4 15/16" (18.9 x 12.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In-text plate (colophon) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

dia. plate 2 5/16" (5.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Title page from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

dia. plate 2 1/4" (5.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

And there for the first time Daphnis looking on, she washed her own white body, pure in its loveliness (frontispiece) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 7/16 x 5" (18.9 x 12.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 51) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 7/16 x 5" (18.9 x 12.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Tailpiece (page 63) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

dia. plate 2 5/16" (5.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Headpiece (page 65) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 1 7/16 x 5" (3.6 x 12.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 71) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 7/16 x 5" (18.9 x 12.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 78) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 7/16 x 5" (18.9 x 12.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 84) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

plate 7 7/16 x 5" (18.9 x 12.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Tailpiece (page 95) from The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe

1934 · One from an illustrated book with twenty-two etchings

dia. plate 2 5/16" (5.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (4)

30 published of 53 catalogued · 2 with image

MoMA
23 publishedof 46 catalogued
The Met
3 published
Cleveland Museum of Art
2 published
Art Institute Chicago
2 published2 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)

2 entries · 1 sources

Textile
1932 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Newburgh from the Frederick Delano Garden
1929 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Carpet Panel for Radio City Music Hall (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

2

Collections2

Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Rugs from the Crawford Shops designed by American Artists

New York · 1937

Exhibition Rugs from the Crawford Shops designed by American Artists Museum of Modern Art

New York · 1937