Ruth VanSickle Ford was an American painter, art teacher, and owner of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Born to Anna Miller, a German immigrant, and Charles P. VanSickle, of Dutch heritage, Ruth was an only child and grew up on the west side of Aurora, Illinois. She attended Mary A. Todd Grade School and West Aurora High School. Immediately following high school she enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied under Carl Newland Werntz from 1915–1918.

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  • Ruth VanSickle Ford was an American painter, art teacher, and owner of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Born to Anna Miller, a German immigrant, and Charles P. VanSickle, of Dutch heritage, Ruth was an only child and grew up on the west side of Aurora, Illinois. She attended Mary A. Todd Grade School and West Aurora High School. Immediately following high school she enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied under Carl Newland Werntz from 1915–1918. The same year she graduated from the Academy, Ruth married Albert Ford (known as "Sam Ford"), a civil engineer, in a military ceremony in Houston, Texas, after which he departed for service in the First World War. In 1918, undaunted by pregnancy and the absence of her husband, Ruth traveled across the country to visit a relative in Utah, giving birth while on that trip to their only child, Barbara. Recognition as an artist came to her early, and she was chosen to exhibit in the 1921 American Show at the Art Institute of Chicago. Later in life, she was always quick to credit her teachers, especially George Bellows, who influenced her with his social realism, and John Carlson, who founded the School of Landscape Painting in Woodstock, New York.
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  • Ruth VanSickle Ford was an American painter, art teacher, and owner of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Born to Anna Miller, a German immigrant, and Charles P. VanSickle, of Dutch heritage, Ruth was an only child and grew up on the west side of Aurora, Illinois. She attended Mary A. Todd Grade School and West Aurora High School. Immediately following high school she enrolled at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied under Carl Newland Werntz from 1915–1918.
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  • Ruth VanSickle Ford
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