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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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Facts about Anne Ryan

   Publications  Book References:  30
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Anne Ryan
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques From Funnies to Fine Art June 2000 Ketcham, Hank Yes
Architectural Digest Contemporary Collage May 1995 Rosenblum, Robert Yes
30 Book References for Anne Ryan
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Wilkin, Karen and Bruce Guenther Clement Greenburg: A Critic's Collection Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
(Exhibition catalog)
0 Yes
2000 Herskovic, Marika New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists 393 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1994 Bailey, Brooke The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists 207 No
1993 Messinger, Lisa Abstract Expressionism Works on Paper 163 Yes
1990 Acton, David A Spectrum of Innovation Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960
(Exhibition catalog)
304 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1987 Levin, Gail Twentieth Century American Painting Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection 407 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1984 Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators) American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum 88 Yes
1982 Contemporary Arts Museum The Americans/The Collage
(Exhibition catalog)
143 Yes
1982 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present 560 Yes
1981 Lieberman, William (editor) An American Choice Muriel Kallis Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
167 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1980 Johnson, Una E American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists 266 Yes
1979 Withers, Josephine Women Artists in Washington Collections
(Exhibition catalog)
144 Yes
1976 Baro, Gene 30 Years of American Printmaking Including 20th National Print Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
160 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1967 Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques 342 No
1965 Gerdts, William H Women Artists of America 1707-1964
(Exhibition catalog)
32 No
1961 Seitz, William C The Art of Assemblage
(Exhibition catalog)
176 Yes
1951 Ritchie, Andrew Carnduff Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)
159 Yes
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