About the artist:

Joan Drew Ritchings (1916-2002) was born in Indiana, and in 1938 graduated from the Massachusetts School of Art and Design. Drew studied painting at the studio of Elsa Schmid for two years. She won a scholarship to the Arts Student League in New York City, where she studied with Harry Sternberg and Arnold Singer. Drew shared her studio with two owls and founded Gray Moose Press. Her work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Boston Public Library; Cleveland Museum of Art; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Massachusetts College of Art and Design; New York Public Library; and Philadelphia Museum of Art among others.