b'Born in 1931, Janet Ruttenberg began paintingandallusionstofamousantecedents,suchasJANET RUTTENBERG BIOattheageoffiveunderthetutelageofanSeuratsLe djeuner sur lherbe, inRuttenbergs accomplisheduncle,AbelWarshawsky.Herworks. The paintings are difficult to pigeonhole, mothersenthertoboardingschoolatageandwhollyherown.Theyaretheworkofa fourteen, she says, to prevent her from stayingmature artist encountering the world as though up all night painting. The plan had no effect. Shefor the first time. Janet Ruttenbergs works have went on to study art at the University of Iowabeen exhibited at the Dubuque Museum of Art undermasterprintmakerMauricioLasansky.(Dubuque, IA), the Museum of the City of New After her formal training, she deconstructed theYork (New York, NY) and at the Union Carbide canon, painstakingly copying beloved paintingsBuilding(NewYork,NY).Herworkisinthe and prints in order to tease out their secrets. Whilecollections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art raisingfourchildrenintheensuingdecades,(New York, NY), the Philadelphia Museum of Art she continued to paint in the same enthralled,(Philadelphia, PA), and the Library of CongressPhotograph by Sarah Bertalanobservantmanner. Thereisaseductiveblend(Washington DC) among others.ofunfetteredexuberance,technicalmastery, 66 67'