biography of Ruel Pardee TOLMAN (1878-1954)

Birth place: Brookfield, VT

Death place: Wash., DC

Addresses: California, 1897-1902; Wash., DC

Profession: Museum director, painter, etcher, writer

Studied: Mark Hopkins Inst.; Los Angeles School of Art and Design; Univ. California; Corcoran Sch. A.; ASL; NAD.

Exhibited: Soc. of Wash. Artists; Wash. WCC; Wash. AC; Landscape Club of Wash.; Soc. of Independent Artists; S. Indp. A.; Greater Wash. Independent Exh., 1935

Member: Int. Assn. Printing House Craftsmen (hon.); Wash. WC Cl.,(hon.); Chicago SE (hon.); Min. P., S. & Gravers Soc., Wash. D.C.; F., Royal Soc. A., London; Wash. Pr. M.; Wash. AC (charter mem.)

Work: Amherst Wilder Charity, St. Paul, Minn.; U.S. Nat. Mus.

Comments: Husband of Nelly Tolman (see entry). Position: acting dir., NGA, 1932-37; NCFA, 1937-46; cur., Div. Graphic A., U.S. Nat. Mus., 1946; dir., NCFA, 1946-48,Wash., DC. Contributor to: Antiques Magazine, with articles on American miniatures, especially those of Edward G. Malbone. Author: The Life and Work of Edward Greene Malbone, Miniature Painter," 1952. Lectures: American Miniature Painting.

Sources: WW53; WW47. More recently, see McMahan, Artists of Washington, DC