Albert Pinkham Ryder
(American, 1847–1917)
Biography
Albert Pinkham Ryder was an enigmatic American artist known for his haunting paintings of moonlit coastlines, pastoral landscapes, and Biblical scenes. Ryder worked with a slow intensity, building up unctuous layers until they acquired the sculptural mass and tightly knit composition evinced in his painting Jonah (1885–1895). “The artist should fear to become the slave of detail,” he once explained. “He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?” Born on March 19, 1847 in New Bedford, MA, he was influenced growing up in the proximity of the ocean and the town’s massive whaling industry. Moving to New York with his family in the late 1860s, Ryder briefly studied at the National Academy of Design, but left after disagreeing with their teaching methods. While at school, he met Julian Alden Weir, a young artist who shared Ryder’s interest in the landscape paintings of the Barbizon School. Around the turn of the century, he became increasingly solitary, often isolating himself in his studio for long periods of time. Despite his reclusiveness, he had grown the devotion of a generation of younger American artists such as Marsden Hartley. He died on March 28, 1917 in New York, NY. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, among others.
Albert Pinkham Ryder Artworks
Albert Pinkham Ryder
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Albert Pinkham Ryder
Fulton Chain from Bald Mountain, 1886
Sale Date: November 5, 2017
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Attributed to Albert Pinkham Ryder
Figure in a surrealist landscape
Sale Date: March 22, 2016
Auction Closed
English (US)
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