Ruth Ball
{{short description|American sculptor}}
Ruth Norton Ball (December 12, 1879 – December 12, 1960) (born Ruth Norton Ball) was a sculptor and a competitor in art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/ruth-ball-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418074817/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/ruth-ball-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18|title=Ruth Ball|publisher=Sports-Reference.com|accessdate=2011-04-16}}{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/921440 |title=Ruth Ball |work=Olympedia |accessdate=29 July 2020}}
Biography
Ball was born to Charles and Ida Ball on December 12, 1879, in Madison, Wisconsin.{{cite web|url=http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/89summer/sculptors.htm|title=Early Sculpture and Sculptors in San Diego|accessdate=2011-04-16}} She went on to become the Curator of Indian Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art.{{cite news|title=R. W. Schrupp Discusses Art at Women's Club |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29264865/ruth_ball_18791960/ |newspaper=Waukesha Daily Freeman |date=January 21, 1948 |page=5 |via = Newspapers.com |accessdate = March 8, 2019 }} {{Open access}} She taught stone sculpture at the San Diego Art Institute. Ball died in El Cajon, California on her birthday in 1960.
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Category:Artists from Madison, Wisconsin
Category:20th-century American sculptors
Category:20th-century American women sculptors
Category:Sculptors from Wisconsin
Category:Art competitors at the 1928 Summer Olympics
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