The Ruth Rippon papers contains letters/correspondence, exhibit documents (announcements, programs, pamphlets, foam mounted items), newspaper articles, publications, photographs, negatives, print sheets, slides, handwritten notes, sketches, drawings, sketchbooks, scrapbooks, gradebook, yearbook, certificate, poster, and thesis on R. Rippon relating to the life and work of the American ceramicist and sculptor.

Ruth M. Rippon was born in Sacramento, California in 1927. She attended McClatchy High School and studied at Sacramento Junior College from 1945 to 1947. She received a Bachelor of Education (1949) and Master of Fine Arts (1951) from California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts).

11.5 Linear Feet (6 record cartons, 1 OS box, 2 Flat File Folders)

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