Main Drag, c. 1937
Pen and ink and crayon, 7-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches
Collection, The Kentucky Library, Bowling Green

Ruth Hines Temple was born in Warren County, Kentucky in 1899 to Adalaska L. and Mary (Miller) Temple. In 1923 she received her A.B. degree from Virginia's Randolph-Macon College and her M.A. in Art Education from Peabody College in Nashville in 1938. During the interim between studies, Temple taught one year at Leitchfield High School, traveled abroad and attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts for a summer. She also toured the American South on a fellowship from Peabody. In 1942 Temple accepted a position as art supervisor with the Western Kentucky State Teachers College K-12 training school. In 1946 she was promoted to head of the college's art department remaining there until retirement in 1966. During her tenure, the department's faculty grew from two to fourteen. The drawing exhibited is one of many cartoons executed by Temple in the late 1930s. She was generally known as a designer and illustrator. Ruth Hines Temple died October 18, 2001 in Bowling Green.

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