Braun, Ruth Light (American, 1906-2003). UNTITLED (CLEANING CREW). Lithograph, not dated, but likely 1930s. Edition size not stated. Signed in pencil, lower left. 13 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches (image), 18 x 12 inches (sheet). Framed to 21 x 19 inches. In excellent condition. Ruth Light Braun was born in Brooklyn NY, and studied art at Cooper Union. After a period during which she did drawings for the New Yorker and book illustrations, she studied for two years with Winold Reiss. She adopted the methods which Reiss used to portray ethnic subjects to doing portraits of Jews in New York. She also did genre scenes of Jew ish life in the city during the 1920s and 1930s, and it is likelty that this scene of women cleaning in what may be an office building, is one of these. Later she spent time in Palestine, but returned to the U.S. after the death of her first husband. She remariied, and she and her hisband formed a catering business in Washington DC. In later life she resumed her art career in Florida.
