About the Artist
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 Oklahomas 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 Artists Magazines competition in the Experimental category.
Ms. Crookss 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.