Ruth Atkinson Holmes (American/Mississippi, 1909-1981), "Reflecting Light on the Homestead", 1957, oil on canvas board, signed and dated lower right, inscribed en verso, 16 in. x 20 in., framed, overall 18 7/8 in. x 22 7/8 in. x 1 1/2 in. Note: Ruth Atkinson Holmes was born in 1909 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. She pursued her artistic studies at Tulane University, Mississippi University for Women, Southwest Mississippi Junior College and Mississippi College. She was part of a trio of Mississippi artists called the ?Summit Trio,? along with Bess Phipps Dawson and Halcyone Barnes. The group met in Kentwood artist, Roy Shultz?s class at Southwest Mississippi Junior College in Summit in 1951 and studied, painted and exhibited together frequently for the following three decades.

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