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Title: The Toilers of the Sea. Artist: Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, New Bedford, Massachusetts 1847–1917 Elmhurst, New York) Date: ca. 1880–85. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on wood. Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 12 in. (29.2 x 30.5 cm) Credit Line: George A. Hearn Fund, 1915. Accession Number: 15.32
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Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, New Bedford, Massachusetts...
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Details. Title: The Toilers of the Sea. Creator: Albert Pinkham Ryder. Date Created: ca. 1880–85. Physical Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 12 in. (29.2 x 30.5 cm) Type: Painting. External...
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- The Legacy of Albert Pinkham Ryder
Albert Pinkham Ryder was born in 1847 in New Bedford, a growing port in Massachusetts then known for its role in the whaling industry. Both his parental ancestors were of old Cape Cod families, and it is presumed that many in the family had been sailors. Albert, the youngest of four sons, began attending a public grammar school for boys, but had to...
When Albert was in his early twenties, the family moved to New York City, where his older brother was already managing the Hotel Albert. Ryder applied to the National Academy of Design but his application got rejected. Either following advice from the Academy or on his own initiative, he then began lessons with the painter William Edgar Marshall, a...
In the early 1880s, Ryder came to know the Symbolist painter Robert Loftin Newman, a Tennessee-born ex-Confederate soldier who studied briefly under Couture in France and is thought to have influenced Ryder's shift from the Barbizon style of pastoral landscapes towards subjects based on folklore, literature, and opera. Ryder's studio, which Newman ...
After 1900 and the death of his father, Ryder stopped creating new works. Instead he spent most of his time re-working old paintings that were stacked in his rooms. These paintings, due to his eccentric technique that had little regard for drying times of oils and varnishes, had cracked or darkened over time, and Ryder tried to restore them to thei...
A year after his death, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York staged a memorial exhibition in his honor, by which time artist Walt Kuhn could claim that there was "only Ryder in American painting" - a statement that sounded credible to many, at least in the influential Manhattan art world. Art critic Robert Hughes has said that this elevation ...
- American
- March 20, 1847
- New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
- March 28, 1917
The Toilers of the Sea, (painting) | Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery. Object Details. painter. Ryder, Albert Pinkham 1847-1917. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Nov 8, 2023 · The Night, the Light, and the Soul: Albert Pinkham Ryder’s Enchanting Moonscapes. “That best fact, the Moon,” Margaret Fuller called it. “No one ever gets tired of the moon,” Walt Whitman wrote down the Atlantic coast from her, exulting: Goddess that she is by dower of her eternal beauty, [the moon] commends herself to the matter-of ...
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Albert Pinkham Ryder, Toilers of the Sea, ca. 1880–85, Oil on wood, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, George A. Hearn Fund. But putting aside such extraneous biographical niceties, it is Ryder’s formal solitude, the intensely lonely nature of the paintings themselves, that remains crucial to us today.
Apr 5, 2024 · Works such as Toilers of the Sea reflect his obsession with the sea as well as his notion that man is helpless against the forces of nature. Many of his works, such as his Jonah , were drawn from the Bible, while other paintings, such as Macbeth and the Witches , The Temple of the Mind , and Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens , were depictions of ...
