Word: ryder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head out of a morbid fear of sunstroke. He would slash away with his cane at clumps of elderberries, because he considered the elderberry "weak." His great passion was the sea, which he painted, not as something seen through a dream as did the more mystical Albert Ryder, but as man's restless, churning, ever-changing challenge...
Died. Major General (ret.) Charles Wolcott ("Doc") Ryder, 68, much-decorated Army hero of both world wars, who in 1942 commanded the Allied invasion force that hit eastern Algeria and proceeded to mop up the entire country within 76 hours (while he and Envoy Robert Murphy negotiated the end of French resistance with Vichy's Admiral Jean Darlan in Algiers); of a heart attack; in Vineyard Haven, Mass...
...having to meet anyone new, he did not copy nature, but shaped it with his own violent rhythms and dark dreams. In 1908 the great British critic Roger Fry at last wrote a piece about him, but the world at large still failed to take notice. By that time, Ryder was already an unkempt eccentric with wild hair and ragged clothes who lived on Manhattan's Lower West Side in a clutter of newspapers, bottles, unwashed dishes, dirty clothes and unfinished paintings that grew more frightening every year. He refused to let handymen in for necessary repairs...
Only after his death was Ryder recognized as one of America's masters. Bierstadt's oversize canvases disappeared from museum walls, and one after another, they found their way to storerooms and attics. Critics dismissed them as huge postcards, and some declared that it was more Bierstadt's commanding manner than his talent that had brought him such high prices. But last week viewers at the New Bedford show could see why the story did not end there...
...Certain Grandeur. In such Ryder canvases as his famous Toilers of the Sea, the genius of the dreamer comes through with its familiar brooding power. But when Bierstadt was confronted by a scene like Lake Tahoe, he displayed a certain grandeur worthy of the sweep of the pioneer country he painted. A month ago, a dealer offered $15,000 for a Bierstadt that went for only $2,200 in 1946. If Ryder remains the master, Bierstadt. too, is still a part of the permanent American gallery...