Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Marsden Hartley (American painter, 1877-1943)
Location:
repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York, United States) 1992.24.4
Location Note:
Part of Exhibit "Marsden Hartley's Maine," July 8-November 12, 2017
GPS:
44.565-69.660833
Date:
1938 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Expressionist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on paperboard (academy board)
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
71.1 cm (height) x 55.9 cm (width)
Subjects:
portrait; artists
Description:
Hartley returned in 1937 to Maine, where, except for stays in New York, he lived and worked for the rest of his life. He began an important series of expressionist "memory" portraits in 1938. This highly imaginative portrait of Ryder is Hartley’s posthumous tribute to the painter (who died in 1917), whose isolated, melancholy existence and financial poverty struck a sympathetic chord in him. In the portrait, Ryder appears frontal and isolated, like a saint or an icon. Hartley also composed a poem and several essays about artist, including one in which he describes the Ryder’s eyebrows as "lichens overhanging rocks of granite." (Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art [website]; http://www.metmuseum .org)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-HARTLEY-CA-APR-A 01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Albert Pinkham Ryder