Ernest Ruckle (May 1, 1940 - May 2018) was an American artist noted for his elaborately structured paintings.
At Rutgers University, he at first majored in biology, but later switched to English literature and specialized in literary criticism.
He soon started to produce paintings in formal perspective with huge crowds of people and parodies of complex machinery.
His first one-man show was at the Studio Gallery Workshop in New York City in 1966.
(His tenth New York one-man show was in 2005 at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery.)