Publications by Ruth Fine

2026
Fine, Ruth, editor. Roy Lichtenstein’s WWII Letters to His Family. Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, 2026. Forthcoming.

2025
Fine, Ruth. “Mark Rothko,” 190–91; “Romare Bearden,” 323–33; and “Norman Lewis,” 368–69. In 150 Stories: Lives of the Artists at the League, edited by Stephanie Cassidy. New York: Art Students League, 2025. 

2024
Fine, Ruth. “Then and Now: Everything Changes Over Time.” In (Re)FOCUS Then and Now: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts, 1974-2024, edited by Judith K. Brodsky and Diane Burko, 16-21. Philadelphia: The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art & Design, 2024.

2023
Fine, Ruth, Lilian Thomas Burwell, Sylvia Snowden, Floyd Coleman, David C. Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Keith Morrison, Martin Puryear, and Lou Stovall. “Artist Panel: The African American Art World in Twentieth Century Washington, DC.” Studies in the History of Art 83 (2023): 16–47. 

Fine, Ruth and Fred Moten. Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s – Present. New York: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Phillips Collection and Telfair Museum of Art, 2023.

2022
Fine, Ruth. “Critics Page, Printmaking: Intentions and Aspirations.” The Brooklyn Rail, 12, no. 1(February 2022): 47-49.

2021
Fine, Ruth. Review of Soutine/de Kooning: Conversations in Paint, exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, March 7 – August 8, 2021, Philadelphia, PA. The Brooklyn Rail (June 2021).

Fine, Ruth. “What If?” In Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, edited by Carlos Basualdo. New York and Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art: 2021.

2020
Fine, Ruth. “Book Rooms and Books: A Grand Addiction.” Art, Books, 7 (2020): 5-17.

Fine, Ruth. Jim Dine: The Secret Drawings. Philadelphia, PA: University of the Arts in collaboration with Steidl, 2020.

Fine, Ruth. “Passages.” In Luscious: Paintings and Drawings by Wendy Edwards, 5-25. Providence, RI: David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, 2020.

Fine, Ruth. “Roy Lichtenstein: Possibilities.” In Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960, edited by Elizabeth Finch and Marshall N. Price, 141-150. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2020.

2018
Fine, Ruth. “Bochner’s Daunting Color Vision.” In Amazing! Mel Bochner Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, 21-28. The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation in conjunction with the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, 2018. 

2017
Fine, Ruth. “Martin Puryear: Prints, 1962-2016.” Brochure produced in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, which ran from September 8–November 18, 2017. Philadelphia: The Print Center, 2017.

2015
Fine, Ruth. “Conversations with Edwards, Gilliam and Williams.” Norman Lewis (1909-1979) Art and Legacy, International Review of African American Art 26, no. 1 (2015): 48-57.

2014
Fine, Ruth. "Abstraction and Identity: Norman Lewis and the ‘Activity of Discovery’." In The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists, edited by David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates Jr.. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 

2013
Fine, Ruth. William Daley: Ceramic Artist. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2013.

2012
Fine, Ruth. “Education as Activism: Conversation in Print.” In Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop, 8-21. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2012.

2009
Fine, Ruth. “The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper.” The International Review of African American Art 22, no. 4 (2009): 46–47. 

2008 
Fine, Ruth. “Building a Collection: ‘Every Spare Moment of the Day’.” In Fifty Works for Fifty States: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, 1-23. Washington, DC: National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel collection and the National Gallery of Art, 2008.

2007
Fine, Ruth. “If and Perhaps and But.” In Annabel Livermore: Journey of Death as Seen Through the Eyes of the Rancher’s Wife, 26-29. El Paso, TX: El Paso Museum of Art, 2007. 

Fine, Ruth. “Playing in the Sand While Dancing: The Joys of Making Prints.” In Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell, edited by Adrienne L. Childs, 15-26. College Park, MD: The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, 2007.

2006
Fine, Ruth. “Sam Gilliam: Imprint and Improvisation.” In Sam Gilliam: Prints from the Artist’s Collection. Washington, DC: Luther W. Brady Art Gallery at The George Washington University, 2006.

Fine, Ruth. The Janus Press - Fifty Years. Burlington, VT: The University of Vermont, 2006. 

2005
Fine, Ruth. “Expanding the Mainstream: Romare Bearden Revisited.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 149, no. 1 (March 2005): 40-55.

2004
Fine, Ruth. “Introduction.” Romare Bearden: Photographs by Frank Stewart. San Francisco: Pomegranate Communications Inc. in association with Black Light Productions, 2004.

2003
Fine, Ruth, editor. The Art of Romare Bearden. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art 2003. 

2002
Fine, Ruth. “Interview with Marion Boulton Stroud.” In New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, edited by Kelly Mitchell, 12-23. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2002.

1997
Fine, Ruth E. “Books as Bones.” In Georgia O’Keeffe’s Library by Ruth Fine, Elizabeth Glassman and Juan Hamilton with catalogue entries by Sarah L. Burt. The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation, 1997.

Fine, Ruth. “Kathan Brown and Crown Point Press.” In Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art by Karin Breuer, Ruth Fine, and Steven A. Nash, 1-37. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in association with University of California Press, 1997.

Fine, Ruth. “Reality: Digested, Transmuted, and Twisted.” In The Art of Richard Diebenkorn, 93-105. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with the University of California Press, 1997.

Fine, Ruth. “Writing on Rocks, Rubbing on Silk, Layering on Paper. In Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective, 376-389. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1997.

1994
Fine, Ruth. “Dorothy and Herbert Vogel in Conversation.” In From Minimalism to Conceptual Art: Works from The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, 54-76. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1994.

1993
Fine, Ruth. Helen Frankenthaler: Prints. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1993.

1991
Fine, Ruth E. and Mary Lee Corlett. Graphicstudio: Contemporary Art from the Collaborative Workshop at the University of South Florida. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1991.

1990
Fine, Ruth. John Marin. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art in association with Abbeville Press, 1990.

Fine, Ruth. “Judith Solodkin and Solo Press.” The Tamarind Papers: A Journal of Fine Print, 13 (1990). Reprinted in Shaping a Life: Douglass College First Year Course, 090:101, Rutgers University, 43-46. Dubuque IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1995 and 1997. 

Fine, Ruth and Nan Rosenthal. The Drawings of Jasper Johns. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1990. 

1988
Fine, Ruth. “Tools as Offerings.” In Michael Heizer, unpaginated. Tokyo: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 1988.

1987
Fine, Ruth E. “Introduction.” Studies in the History of Art: James McNeill Whistler, A Reexamination, 19 (1987).

Field, Richard S. and Ruth Fine. A Graphic Muse: Prints by Contemporary American Women. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1987.

1986
Fine, Ruth and Robert F. Looney. The Prints of Benton Murdoch Spruance: A Catalogue Raisonné. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press in cooperation with the Free Library of Philadelphia: 1986.

1984
Fine, Ruth. Drawing Near: Whistler Etchings from the Zelman Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.

Fine, Ruth. Gemini G.E.L. Art and Collaboration. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art in association with Abbeville Press, 1984.

1982
Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982.

1974
Lehrer, Ruth Fine. “The Focus Process.” In A Document of Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts, April-May, 1974, 1-20. Philadelphia, 1974.