Frame by Frame: Sebastian Smee looks at ‘Ruth’ by Marisol at Rose Art Museum - Arts

Marisol Escobar, known as Marisol, is the most interesting Post-War artist you’ve probably never heard of. She made this sculpture, called “Ruth,’’ in the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, when she was at the height of her early renown, in 1962. It’s a gem - one of the sneakiest, funniest, most sprightly portraits to have emerged from the whole Pop era.