Alabama Folklorist Ruby Pickens Tartt
Posted by: Stephanie Hall
If asked her about her profession, Ruby Pickens Tartt (1880-1974) would say that she was a painter. In an era when Alabama women rarely attended college, she graduated from the Chase School of Art in New York and painted and taught painting for much of her life. But folklorists consider her one of their own. She was …
Posted in: Folklorists, Women's History