Lady Ruth Gollancz née Lowy (1892–1973) was a British artist and wife of Sir Victor Gollancz

Victor Gollancz

Sir Victor Gollancz was a British publisher, socialist, and humanitarian.-Early life:Born in Maida Vale, London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweller and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Hermann Gollancz and Professor Sir Israel Gollancz; after being educated at St Paul's School, London and taking...

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Life and work

Ruth was the daughter of Ernest Daniel Löwy, a stockbroker. Ruth Gollancz studied art at the Slade school of art from 1909-12 under the direction of Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks, FRCS was a British draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a caricaturist...

. Her contemporaries at the Slade included C.R.W. Nevinson, Paul Nash

Paul Nash

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, John Nash

John Nash

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, Stanley Spencer

Stanley Spencer

Sir Stanley Spencer was an English painter. Much of his work depicts Biblical scenes, from miracles to Crucifixion, happening not in the Holy Land but in the small Thames-side village where he was born and spent most of his life...

, Mark Gertler and Gwen Raverat

Gwen Raverat

Gwendolen Mary "Gwen" Raverat née Darwin was a celebrated English wood engraving artist who co-founded the Society of Wood Engravers in England.- Biography :...

 amongst others. At this time she was also an active suffragette

Suffragette

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She left the Slade school to undertake war work before going on to become the first female member of the Architectural Association in 1917 and a fully qualified architect.

Ruth married Victor Gollancz

Victor Gollancz

Sir Victor Gollancz was a British publisher, socialist, and humanitarian.-Early life:Born in Maida Vale, London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweller and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Hermann Gollancz and Professor Sir Israel Gollancz; after being educated at St Paul's School, London and taking...

 in 1919. They had five daughters including the artist Vita Gollancz

Vita Gollancz

Vita Gollancz was a British painter, printmaker, illustrator and draughtsman.-Life and work:Born in 1926, Vita Gollancz was the fourth daughter of the publisher Victor Gollancz and his wife Ruth Gollancz née Lowy - an artist who had studied at the Slade School of Art under Henry Tonks...

 and the musician Livia Ruth Gollancz.

Other sources

Johnson, J. The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940 (Antique Collectors Club, 1980)