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Autumn Meadows

Former Attribution Formerly attributed to Albert Pinkham Ryder American
1912–17
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774
Ryder is among the most widely forged of American artists, a problem dating back to his own lifetime. This landscape, once attributed to Ryder, is now known to be a forgery. It probably dates after 1912 but was completed by 1917, the year of the artist's death, when it was sold to Philadelphia collector John Braun. The pastiche is derived from two actual Ryders: the horse is borrowed from an early pastoral work such as "Grazing Horse" in the Brooklyn Museum; the landscape is based on "The Forest of Arden" (see 61.101.36). The actual painter of the work will probably never be known.

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Object Information
  • Title: Autumn Meadows
  • Former Attribution: Formerly attributed to Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, New Bedford, Massachusetts 1847–1917 Elmhurst, New York)
  • Date: 1912–17
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas mounted on wood
  • Dimensions: 21 x 17 1/4 in. (53.3 x 43.8 cm)
  • Credit Line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1932
  • Object Number: 32.67.1
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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