Ruth Gollancz

Ruth, Lady Gollancz (née Lowy; 1892–1973) was a British artist and wife of Sir Victor Gollancz.

Ruth was the daughter of Ernest Daniel Lowy, a stockbroker. Ruth Gollancz studied art at the Slade School of Art from 1909 to 1912 under the direction of Henry Tonks, and his teaching Assistant in Drawing, Derwent Lees.^[1] Her contemporaries at the Slade included C.R.W. Nevinson, Paul Nash, John Nash, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler and Gwen Raverat amongst others.^[2] At this time she was also an active suffragette.^[3] She left the Slade school to undertake war work before going on to become one of the first female students at the Architectural Association in 1917^[4] and a fully qualified architect.

Ruth married Victor Gollancz in 1919. The couple had five daughters^[5] including the artist Vita Gollancz and the musician Livia Ruth Gollancz.

• 1933 – Cooling & Sons Gallery
• 1964 – Upper Grosvenor Galleries

• Johnson, J. The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940 (Antique Collectors Club, 1980)