Phyllis Ridderhof Martin January 17, 2008

The southern California painter Phyllis Ridderhof Martin studied art first at Hollywood High School and then at UCLA, graduating in 1926. The following year she began to teach evening classes in art, and continued to do so for over 30 years. Her most ambitious works were painted in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They relate to the well-known California tradition of modernist figurative painting of this period. Since her death in 1993, most of the artist's large collection of her own artworks, together with her library and personal papers, have been given to the College.