Ruth Appelhof

Ruth Appelhof was a retired museum and theater administrator, most recently from Guild Hall in East Hampton. She earned her Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1989, having written her dissertation on American Modernism and, in particular, the Canadian artist Emily Carr. Her museum career started at the Whitney Museum as a Helena Rubenstein Fellow in 1980. Since then, as a director of cultural institutions across the country, Appelhof became known as an agent of exceptional growth and change. Appelhof was a Fellow at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center and she was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome, Italy in 2017. Her most recent published work is a memoir about Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner, with whom she lived in the 1970s while researching her Master’s thesis. The Krasner memoir also includes interviews with other art-world notables and is scheduled to accompany the Krasner retrospective opening in London in 2019 and traveling throughout Europe to a final venue at Bilbao, Spain.