biography of Roger M. RITTASE (1899-1975)

Birth place: Littlestown, PA

Death place: Lebanon, PA

Addresses: Phila., PA; Wash., DC, 1936

Profession: Painter, teacher

Studied: AIC; PAFA; Corcoran Sch. Art

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1924, 1936; Gr. Wash. Indep. Exh., 1935; Soc. Wash. Artists, (hon. men., 1936); Burlington Hotel (solo, 1939); Wash. AC (solo, 1961); Wash. Landscape Club

Member: Soc. Wash. Artists; Wash. Landscape Club

Comments: Teaching: U.S. Dept. of Interior; his studio. He was hospitalized in 1971 at the Veterans Hospital in Lebanon, PA, where he died 4 years later.

Sources: WW40; McMahan, Artists of Washington, DC; Falk, Exh. Record Series.