Rita M. Crooks
Artist Biography
Rita Crooks has Signature membership in the National Watercolor Society, the San Diego Watercolor Society and Watercolor, USA Honor Society. She has exhibited in the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition as well as National Watercolor Oklahoma’s Annual Exhibit. Ms. Crooks has received a merit award in the International Society of Experimental Artists‚ exhibition and was a finalist in 2002 in The Artist’s Magazine’s competition in the Experimental category.
Ms. Crooks’s paintings are in collections of the Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, the Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, WI., the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., Milwaukee, WI., the Village of Northbrook, ILL., the Milwaukee Public Art Commission, Wausau-Mosinee Papers Corporation, Wausau Insurance Co., St. Clare Hospital, Baraboo, WI and many other corporations, hospitals and homes in the Midwest.
A retrospective of her 25-year painting career was held at the Center for the Visual Arts in her hometown, Wausau, WI. in November 2006.