Word: ryders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inness was a frail epileptic who had only one month's formal training in his life; yet he was, along with Homer, Eakins, and Ryder, one of the few great painters in the U.S. in his day. He was a master of catching the subtle whims of nature, and he could bathe the most or dinary scene in poetry. While more fashionable colleagues strained for panoramas -the vast valleys and rugged mountain chains of a newly self-conscious America -Inness was quite satisfied to paint whatever lay just beyond his own backyard. Last week the Paine Art Center...
...only twelve and hit the ball that far-it must have been 275 yds.-wow!" A year later, at 13. Jack shot a 69 from the back tees at Scioto-a 7,095-yd. championship course that has been the site of the Open, the P.G.A. and the Ryder...
...artists, collectors, critics and dealers. On the theory that what may seem trivial today could be important tomorrow, the Archives will accept or buy just about anything. It has more than a million original and microfilmed items, among them Benjamin West's wine bills, poems written by Albert Ryder, a Lyonel Feininger sketchbook, the notes and papers of Walt Kuhn. Last week it announced an offbeat donation from Painter Jack Levine-108 drawings that show his prodigious childhood talent...
Though he was, along with Albert Ryder, the greatest American painter of his day, he was given only one one-man show in his lifetime, and it was not until he was almost 60 that he won a prize that carried any kind of prestige. Some of his most ambitious paintings were ridiculed, and so little value was placed on his portraits that several, including one of President Hayes, have simply disappeared. At one point, even his native Philadelphia seemed to forget him: when John Singer Sargent came to town and asked to meet Eakins, he got the bewildered reply...
...figure in Evening, Fall of Day. Ralph Blakelock, who ended his days trying to paint million-dollar bills in a Middletown, N.Y., asylum, possessed a talent that still has the power to haunt. His small Wood Nymph is set in a fantasy forest, as dreamlike as a landscape by Ryder...