Background
Donoho, Ruger was born on December 21, 1857 in Church Hill, Jefferson Company, Mississippi, United States. Son of Robert and Julia S. (Ruger) Donoho.
Donoho, Ruger was born on December 21, 1857 in Church Hill, Jefferson Company, Mississippi, United States. Son of Robert and Julia S. (Ruger) Donoho.
Emerson Institute, Washington. State Normal School, Millersville, Pennsylvania. Studied under R. Swain Gifford, New York, 1877-1879.
Art Students’ League, New York, 1877-1878.
Studied in Paris, 1880-1887, Julien Academy, 1880-1886, under Bouguereau and Fleury, also Boulanger and Lefebvre.
Began work, Paris, 1880. Silver medal, Paris Exposition, 1889. Hors Concour, Paris Salon, 1890.
Webb prize, Society American Artists, New York, 1892.
Medal, Chicago Exposition, 1893. Honorable mention, Carnegie Institute, 1911.
Progressive. Episcopalian.
Married Matilda Ackley, April.