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Landscape

1897–98 (?)
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774
This landscape is surprisingly modern in its simplified details, flattened forms, and patterned composition. A shepherd and animals of the sort that had appeared in Ryder’s earlier, Barbizon influenced paintings are here overwhelmed by the setting’s stylized elements: a stream rushing along a rigid diagonal, sinuous hills filling the middle ground, and clouds rising in contrasting bands and culminating in undulating deep-blue shapes outlined in light. Works such as this one prompted the avant-garde painter Marsden Hartley, born thirty years after Ryder, to call him a “master of the arabesque.”

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Landscape
  • Artist: Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, New Bedford, Massachusetts 1847–1917 Elmhurst, New York)
  • Date: 1897–98 (?)
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 14 in. (24.1 x 35.6 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Frederick Kuhne, 1952
  • Object Number: 52.199
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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