Education
She lived for some years in Denmark, where she was educated as a painter first on the Bizzie Højer Art School and later on the Art Academy of Copenhagen.
She lived for some years in Denmark, where she was educated as a painter first on the Bizzie Højer Art School and later on the Art Academy of Copenhagen.
Later she moved back to the Faroe Islands. And the last years of her life she lived in the small village Nes, which is located on the fjord Vágsfjørður between the villages Vágur, where she was born and Porkeri. There is an art museum in Vágur in honour of Ruth Smith.
The museum is called Ruth Smith Savnið, which means The museum is located in the Old School on Vágsvegur 101, which is the same school where Ruth Smith went to school as a child.
The museum has paintings and drawing by the artist. One of the main attractions is a self-portrait, which she painted in 1941.
lieutenant is the same self-portrait which was used as the cover of a book about the artist Ruth Smith.