Anne Ryan

Background

Anne Ryan was born in 1889 in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States. Both her parents died when Ryan was in her early teens.

Education

Anne Ryan attended the Academy of St Elizabeth Convent for both high school and early college.

Career

During the 1920s, Ryan frequented art and literary circles in New York's Greenwich Village neighborhood, and published a novel, Raquel, as well as a volume of poetry, Lost Hills. In 1931 and 1932 she lived in Majorca and then Paris.

Then she returned to the United States and settled on West Fourth Street in New York City. She began to paint in 1938 and had her first solo exhibition in 1941 at The Pinacoteca on Lexington Avenue. Ryan also wrote a series of poems in the late 1930s and 40s called "Lines to a Young Painter".

Besides, she had three exhibitions of her work at the Betty Parsons Gallery in the 1950s that solidified her reputation in the art world.

Anne Ryan died in 1954 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States.

Achievements

• Anne Ryan was best known as one the representatives of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists. Her most notable works included "Number 547", "Gray Collage" and "Pastorale".

Works

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• painting

  • Number 453

  • Prostrating Figure

  • Number 226

  • Number 547

  • Personal World

  • Number 652

  • Number 319

  • Number 653

  • Gray Collage

  • Number 334

  • XXV

  • Number 57

  • Untitled

  • Number 7

  • Number 126

  • Untitled

  • Number 650

  • Number 236

  • Number 22

  • Number 159

  • Pastorale

  • Number 587

  • Untitled (No. 10)

  • Untitled (#424)

  • Number 6: "Rumpelmayer"

  • Number 456

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• Deborah Solomon: "She recognized the visual equivalent of her sonnets - discrete images packed together in an extremely compressed space."

Connections

Anne Ryan married attorney William McFadden, but they separated in 1923. Their daughter Elizabeth McFadden was also an artist.

Spouse:

William McFadden

Daughter:

Elizabeth McFadden