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Artist Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847 - 1917)

Dateabout 1879

DimensionsFrame: 19 3/4 × 24 × 3 in. (50.2 × 61 × 7.6 cm)
Canvas: 14 3/16 × 18 11/16 in. (36 × 47.5 cm)

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of Florence Scott Libbey

Object number

1923.3134

Not on View

Published References"The American Artists," New York Times, March 8, 1879.

Brownell, W., "The Younger Painters of America: First Paper," Scribner's Monthly, XX, May 1880, repr. p. 6 (engraving).

Ekford, C. (Charles de Kay), "A Modern Colorist, Albert Pinkham Ryder," Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, XL, June 1890, p. 259.

Sherman, F., Albert Pinkham Ryder, New York, 1920, p. 70, repr. opp. p. 54.

The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 82, June 1938, p. 12, repr.

Goodrich, L., Albert P. Ryder, New York, 1950, pp. 14, 113, pl. 5.

Taynton, Carole A., "Idyllic Landscapes," The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 8, no. 2, Summer 1965, pp. 36-39, repr. p. 37.

Fine, Elsa Honig, The Afro-American Artist, New York, 1973, p. 75, repr. p. 74.

McCready, Eric S., "Tanner and Gilliam: Two American Black Painters," Negro American Literature Forum, vol. 8, no. 4, Winter 1974, p. 279.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, p. 96, pl. 73.

Homer, William Innes and Lloyd Goodrich, Albert Pinkham Ryder: Painter of Dreams, New York, 1989, pp. 26, 67, 235, fig. 2-18, p. 27.

Burnham, Patricia M., ed., Redefining American History Painting, Cambridge, England, 1995, pp. 189-190, fig. 54.

Connett Brophy, Christina, Elizabeth Broun, and William C. Agee, A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art, New York, Rizzoli Electa, 2020, p. 47, repr. (col.) fig. 19, p. 46.

Exhibition HistoryKurtz Gallery, March 1879, (title unknown).

New York, Society of American Artists, Catalogue of the Second Exhibition, 1879, no. 146.

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Art Collections Owned by James W. Ellsworth, 1890, no. 84.

Venice, XXI Biennale Internationale d'arte, 1938, United States, no. 46.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, A Century of Landscape Painting, 1939, no. 15.

Akron, Akron Art Institute, 1945.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Albert P. Ryder, Centenary Exhibition, 1947, no. 40.

Athens, Ohio University, Sesquicentennial Exhibition of American Painting 1804-1954, no. 19.

Washington, National Museum of American Art; Brookyln, Brooklyn Museum, Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1990-1991, no. 62, pp. 35, 37, 69, 165, 291, 292, repr. p. 38 (col.), p. 292.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, The Unseen Art of TMA: What's in the Vaults and Why?, September 12, 2004-January 2, 2005 (no catalogue or checklist).