McClean, Ruth

All original artwork framed.

           Ruth McClean is attracted to the farming landscapes of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania and the challenge of painting trees, streams, houses, barns, outbuildings, country schools and covered bridges.

           She uses a combination of opaque’s and transparent watercolors – wet on wet and dry brush, and ink to produce her miniature primitives.

           Ruth was destined to paint the world around her.  Born n Blue Ball, Maryland, she grew up on farms in Pennsylvania and spent her summers, until she was 14, with her grandparents, Laura and Robert Connell, Sr. on “Walnut Hill Farm (now Lamaton) at Corner Ketch.

            In 1970, Ruth won first place in the Delaware State Grange art show for a watercolor of her mother’s chicken house and chickens eating grain in the snow.  In 1986, a watercolor of Calvert, Md. Farm was featured on the cover of Chesapeake Bay Magazine.