Albert Pinkham Ryder Prints
1847–1917 · American · Tonalism
Wall art by Albert Pinkham Ryder, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
10 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Albert Pinkham Ryder
Albert Pinkham Ryder was born in the whaling port of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in March 1847 and moved with his family to New York in 1870, where he studied briefly at the National Academy. He painted slowly and alone, in a cluttered room on Fifteenth Street, reworking small canvases for years with glazes, varnish and even candle wax until the surfaces cracked: moonlit boats under heavy skies, scenes from Wagner, the Bible and Shakespeare, and a riderless Death on a racetrack prompted by a waiter's suicide after a lost bet. He made perhaps 160 pictures in all, and they were so admired that forgeries outnumber them. Ten were shown in the Armory Show of 1913 as the ancestors of American modernism. He died at Elmhurst, New York, in March 1917. His dark little marines print as moody, poetic images for a study or bedroom wall.