Myra Oliver Ruth Rossman, 90; Watercolorist Helped Found Venice Art Walk, Los Angeles Times, 5 August 2004
"Ruth Rossman [1914-2004], a watercolor artist and educator who helped found the Venice Art Walk, has died. She was 90.
"Rossman, widow of the Venice Family Clinic founder, Dr. Phillip Rossman [ -1990], died Friday . . .
"A co-chair of the University of Judaism Fine Arts Council who helped found the school's Platt Gallery, staged a one-woman exhibition of her work at the gallery in 1998.
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"Rossman served as president of the National Watercolor Society from 1974 to 1975 and in 1979 helped found the Venice Art Walk, where she exhibited annually.
"She also had one-woman shows at the Heritage Gallery in Los Angeles and exhibited in groups shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and what is now known as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
"Her paintings are included in the 1987 book The California Romantics: Harbingers of Watercolor.
"Born in Brooklyn as Ruth Scharff, she moved with her parents to Canton, Ohio, as a child. She earned degrees at the Cleveland Institute of Art and at what is now Case Western Reserve University . . .
"After World War II, the Rossmans moved to Los Angeles, where he established a Westside medical practice and eventually set up the Venice Family Clinic to serve the needy. His wife became a full-time artist.
" Widowed in 1990, Rossman is survived by their daughter Joanna Morgan . . .
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