Ruth Leaf, etching titled Coney Island Conversation, 1963. Signed and dated in pencil lower right. Entitled lower left. Matted and framed. Ruth Leaf, 1923 to 2015, was an American artist and a pioneer in the discipline of printmaking. She studied at the New School for Social Research, Art Students League of New York and Brooklyn College, and Atelier 17. While fluent in the methods of woodcut, linoleum, monotype, collagraph and collage, she was most known for her viscosity etchings. Mid Century American Prints For Collectors.