Ruth Ann Fredenthal is a leading painter in the third collection of Count Panza di Biumo of Italy. Her paintings are in The Museum of Contemporary Art of Lugano, Switzerland; The Museum Palazzo Ducale of Gubbio, Italy; The Museum Villa Panza of Varese, Italy (three rooms, two of which were Rothko's in the first Panza Collection); the Museum of Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto now the largest contemporary museum in Italy, and The Albright-Knox Art Gallery of Buffalo, N. Y.  Buffalo, N. Y.  Her paintings are widely shown in Europe particularly in Italy, and are represented by ArteSilva Contemporaneo of Seregno/Milan and GalleriaMichelaRizzo of Venice.

Fredenthal, who is the daughter of the late David Fredenthal, a watercolor painter and draftsman, was born in Detroit and grew up mostly in Vermont. She has been an artist since childhood, and is a graduate of Bennington  College where she studied with Paul Feeley and Tony Smith.

She was a Fulbright Scholar to Florence, Italy in Painting and the recipient of the Pollack-Krasner Grant in 2008.

She lives and works in New  York.

Ruth Ann Fredenthal has always been committed to formal abstract oil painting. Her vision is to create paintings of timelessness, beauty and complexity while sustaining the classical Renaissance tradition into today's pure painting realm. Since the early 1970's, she has pursued a deep investigation of the micro-tonalities of pure color and their subtle relationships within a highly complex color field using traditional oil painting techniques.

Fredenthal's luminous paintings, which operate right at the edge of perception, are visually tactile,  sensuously warm and contemplatively rich.  After the initial gestalt of the overall color, a mix of many colors, her paintings slowly and quietly reveal an inner world. Ever changing and pulsing with the shifts of light, a rigorously structured chord of the smallest color differences appears and intensifies with prolonged viewing.

“Ruth Ann Fredenthal – Paintings,” Borromini Arte Contemporanea, Ozzano Monferrato, Italy. (Dec-Jan) (cat.)

“Ruth Ann Fredenthal - Paintings,” Valeria Belvedere Gallery, Milan, Italy (May- July)

"Works on Paper 1974-1977," Stark Gallery, New York (Feb – March)

“The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light”, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, (book), (Nov. 07 – Feb. 08)

"La Collezione Panza di Biumo", 10 year loan, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, the new MART, Rovereto, Italy. (Cat.)

“La Collezione Panza di Biumo. Artisti degli anni ’80 e ’90,” Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio Italy (cat)

“Drawing From Life,” Stark Gallery, New York
“Bridge,” Satellite Gallery, Long Island City, NY

“La Collezione Panza di Biumo. Artisti degli anni ’80 e ’90,” Museo di Arte Moderna  e Contemporanea di Trento e Roverto, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento (cat)

"Painting", Stark Gallery, New York

AIR Gallery, New York

"The Big Picture: Major Paintings," Buecker & Harpsichords, New York

"Small Works," Art Latitude Gallery, New York; curated by Ann Lauterbach

"S Curves and Ellipses," Buecker & Harpsichords, New York    

"Outdoors-Indoors, Recent Work," Buecker & Harpsichords, New York

Suffolk Museum and Carriage House, Long Island city, New York

Baron, Reuben and Joan Boykoff Baron, “The Panza Collection”, Artcritical. Com, Dec. 2007.

Bonetti, David, “The Panza Collection”, Albright- Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.,( Book), Fall 2007

Borromeo Dina, Lucia.  “Guida ala visita dell’ala padronale,” La Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza e la collezione Panza di Biumo. Skira Publications (Italy) Sept. 2000

Dabkowski, Colin,”Albright-Knox exhibit: A visionary’s view”, The Buffalo News, Dec.2, 2007.

Dell’orso, Silvia.  “Villa Panza a Varese Restaurata Dal Fai - La Casa Museo Apre e Porte- Installazioni e Opere di Grandi Artisti,” La Repubblica Tutto Milano No.215. Sept 14 –20, 2000 p. 4-5.

Koplos, Janet. Review of “Drawing From Life,” Art in America , May 1997.

____. Review of "Ruth Ann Fredenthal at The Clocktower," Art in America, January 1981.

Masoero, Ada. “Varese – Panza, Il Magnifico”  Vernissage Il Giornale Dell’Arte #7 (Italy) September 2000. (Cover Story) pp. 4-8

Murdock, Robert. “Then and Now,” The Work Space, New York, (cat.) Essay, Feb.,1999.

Perazzi, Mario. Review of “Ruth Ann Fredenthal,” at Belvedere Gallery, Corriere Della Sera, Guida Alle Mostre, Milan, 26 June, 1999

Pontiggia, Elena. Ruth Ann Fredenthal: Le forme del silenzio. Borrimini Arte Contemporanea. Italy, 2000 (Cat.)

Schafer, Silvia. “Dialog mit avantgardistischer und etablierter Kunst,” (Review of Basel Art Fair),Bieler Talgatt, (Biel, Switzerland) June 1995.

Sotnik, David. “The Means Are The Ends: Ruth Ann Fredenthal - Portrait of an Artist,” video documentary, New York, 1999

Spagnesi, Licia. “Grandi Collezioni Panza di Biumo Il Vizio dell’Avanguardia,” Arte no.320 (Milan), April 2000, pp.96-102