Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Ruth St Denis NPG x101367

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Born Ruth Denis in Newark, New Jersey, she began dancing and acting in vaudeville and musical comedy shows when she was a teenager. After studying Hindu art and philosophy, she performed Radha in New York in 1906. The same year she created The Incense and The Cobras, which she toured in Europe. In 1915 she and husband, dancer Ted Shawn, founded the Denishawn school and company in Los Angeles, which pioneered the development of modern dance in America and toured extensively until 1932. Her autobiography,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.