Ruth Payne Burgess

Ruth Payne Burgess, (October 11, 1865 in Montpelier, Vermont – March 11, 1934 in New York),[3][4] was a naturalistic painter of portraits, still lifes, and genre work.

[7] Ruth Payne Jewett met John William Burgess in Vermont through a mutual friend, the artist Thomas Waterman Wood.

[12] After John Burgess retired from Columbia, the couple lived in Newport, Rhode Island in a house named "Athenwood" and in Brookline, Massachusetts.

[14] Burgess studied at Barnard College, the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York[5] under George de Forest Brush, Kenyon Cox, and James Carroll Beckwith.

[6][7][nb 1] Burgess painted portraits, including Nicholas Murray Butler, the president of Columbia University; A. Barton Hepburn; and Admiral Charles E.

In 1899 Burgess joined the National Association of Women Artists and the Woman's Art Club of New York, where she served as the organization's president from 1905 to 1910 and contributed to its financial growth.