Unused Reinthal & Newman postcard with design by American artist Ruth Ford Harper (1883-1922)
Ruth Ford Harper, born Ruth Heilprin Hammerslough O'Neill, was born in Washington, DC, on September 3, 1883. She was a student of WIlliam Merritt Chase and created the covers of various issues of Good Housekeeping, Harper's Weekly and the Sunday Magazine of the New York Tribune as well as designs for postcards under her pseudonym of R. Ford Harper.
She married Alexander Hammerslough in 1906, and they lived in New York. She exhibited her work under her real name Ruth H. Hammerslough at least once, Nov. 26 -Dec. 8, 1918 at the Dowell Club 108 W. 55th St.
In August 1920 she settled in Paris to study, and was still living 31 rue Campagne-Première in the heart of Montparnasse in June 1922, while her husband still lived in New York. She died in Paris in 1922.