KINGSTON, N.Y. Painter Andr閑 Ruellan has died at the age of 101 in Kingston. Some of her best-known work came from her visits to the South during the Depression, and now her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and other museums.

“As a young woman, she was known for her sympathetic depictions of scenes from ordinary life, which she observed on the streets of New York and in her travels in the American South,” reported The New York Times reported.

Andr閑 Ruellan was an American painter, born in New York City to French emigre parents. Considered a prodigy, she studied at the Art Students League in her mid teens with Maurice Sterne and Robert Henri, followed by studies in Rome with Sterne. Settling in Paris in 1923, she became part of a cultured circle including Gertrude Stein, Man Ray and Isamu Noguchi. Upon returning to New York in 1928, she had her first one-person show. She married the painter John Taylor, and together they made frequent trips to the American South, which provided subject matter for her genre paintings and street scenes. She also participated in the WPA and painted a mural for the Lawrenceville, Georgia, post office. After World War II, her style became more abstract, though she never abandoned representation.

During her distinguished career she exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery and others. She was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 1950-51. Ruellan’s works are in the collections of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Phillips Gallery in Washington, and the Whitney Museum. In the spring of 2005, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah and the Columbus Museum of Art (Georgia) organized the traveling retrospective exhibition Andr閑 Ruellan's 100th Birthday.

Known for such works as the 1936 painting "Crap Game," Ruellan leaves no immediate survivors.