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Anne Ryan

Anne Ryan (1889 - 1954) was active/lived in New York, New Jersey.  Anne Ryan is known for Collage, geometric, mod imagery.

A collage artist and painter, Anne Ryan did not begin an art career until she was fifty and she was sixty before she began her small scale collages of found objects which are now her signature works. The style was cubist-inspired abstractions, highly colorful and textured. She only lived to age seventy but in the decade in which she did the collages, she was quite prolific from her Greenwich Village studio.

She was born in Hoboken, New Jersey to a wealthy Irish family. She attended a Catholic convent school and then St. Elizabeth's College, but left in 1911 before graduation to marry William Mc Fadden, a law student.

She was unhappy as a wife and mother and separated from her husband in 1923 and took back her maiden name. She moved to Greenwich Village in New York and lived a Bohemian lifestyle. She also spent time in Spain and Paris and then returned permanently to live in Greenwich Village.

In 1941, she had her first exhibition of oil paintings and then in 1948,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4067 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Anne Ryan


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Automatism, Automatic Writing, Drawing
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Still Life
  • Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Art Teacher
  • Stanley William Hayter
Art School
  • Atelier 17, Stanley Hayter Workshop, Student
  • Columbia University Art Department, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Printmaking Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Betty Parsons Gallery, New York City
Exhibition of Museum
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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