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During his lifetime, Henry Ward Ranger was considered the dean of American landscape painting. He was the father of the Tonalist movement and founder of the School of Lyme. Unfortunately, the contribution made by this extraordinary and influential artist is not widely known and thus is generally under-appreciated. What biographical information has been available could, until recently, be found only in widely scattered sources. Estelle Riback's monograph now comprises the most complete and authoritative study of Ranger's life and art. Her painstaking research documents his legacy and places it in its proper artistic and critical contexts. It will become an essential resource for collectors, students, and museum visitors interested in the artist and the period.
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Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Completed Pictures Left by the Late Henry Ward Ranger, N. A: And His Collection of Works by Some of His Contemporaries The occasions have been rare when extensive public sales have been made of the work of any single artist of note. We can most readily recall the names of Wyant, Inness and Twachtman, whose Studio contents were sold after their death; the first named some twenty-five years ago, the others following within a very few years. In each case surprise was expressed at the number of pictures left by these artists, the fact being overlooked that their work represented many years. This is equally true of the collection of pictures by Mr. Ranger here catalogued. For reasons best known to himself, almost every one of what we consider his best working years seems to have seen something reserved. Had he been aiming at leaving behind a chronological collection of his canvases for preservation in one group, he could hardly have chosen differently. The pic tures now to be seen together for the last time doubtless give the opportunity iir. Ranger desired to enable the public to make an estimate of his life work. It is true that to-day's estimate may not be the final one. It rarely happens that artists are fairly judged until time furnishes a proper per spective. Up to within his last eight or ten years, Mr. Ranger was a fairly prolific painter. Gradually he tarried longer and longer over each canvas, and was often heard to say, during the last few years, that he would be very happy if he could produce each year four or five canvases that came near satis fying his critical estimate of his own work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Henry Ward Ranger was born on January 29, 1858 in Syracuse, New York, the son of Ward Valencourt and Martha Marie (Ranger) Ranger. The father was for many years a commercial photographer at Syracuse, and from 1873 to 1888, instructor in photography in the College of Fine Arts of Syracuse University; in his studio the son early learned to make photographic pictures.
He attended the Syracuse public schools and Syracuse University, 1873-75 (date supplied by the Syracuse Art Museum), but did not graduate.
Having had relatively little academic training in art, he opened a studio in New York about 1884, and pleasantly disappointed his father's expectation of his failure. His quite salable water colors, based on the practices of the Barbizon and modern Dutch painters, brought the young artist a modest income which he so managed as to become a well-to-do man. He was also a clever musician and for some years had frequent employment as a music critic.
Ranger spent much time abroad and became an intimate friend of Josef Israels and Anton Mauve. He did considerable painting in Holland, and described his impressions of that country in "Artist Life by the North Sea, " contributed to the Century Magazine, March 1893. Although "he never became a master technician, for his touch was at times heavy", he chose his subjects cleverly and his experiments with pigments and varnishes were of fascinating interest.
About 1900 he discovered the picturesqueness of the Connecticut shore and Fisher's Island. At his studio on the water front at Noank, he painted the pictures, usually in oil color over damp varnish, by which he is best known. They reflect the personality of a rugged, vigorous man who reproduced from nature much of its poetry and tenderness.
Ranger's year followed a definite pattern: the late autumn and early winter he spent in New York; in mid-January he left for Puerto Rico, whose landscape and people he loved; for six or seven months he was at Noank. He was not only socially agreeable but was also a good business man; he sold his paintings well and successfully projected studio buildings in New York.
He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1906. The Syracuse Museum acquired his "Long Pond, " "Noank Harbor, " and several water colors; the Metropolitan Museum, "Spring Woods" and "High Bridge"; the National Gallery of Art, "Groton Long Point Dunes" and several others.
In 1916 heart trouble sent him to a sanitarium at Watkins Glen, New York, from which he returned to his New York home apparently improved in health, but in November of that year he died, in his sleep. His residuary estate, amounting to about $250, 000, was bequeathed to the National Academy of Design, the income to be used for purchase of paintings by Americans, these to be administered by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, which under stipulated conditions, places them among American art museums.
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Quotations: "As a boy I took to art naturally as a duck takes to water. My father rather encouraged the idea at the start as he thought it would keep me out of mischief. Later, when he learned that I thought of taking it up as a profession he manifested the usual opposition that comes from a sensible, strong-headed parent" (letter from M. Frances Ferris, of the staff of the Syracuse Public Library, which has a collection of newspaper clippings concerning the Rangers).
Ranger was the first member of the Florence Griswold circle in the Old Lyme Art Colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
In 1884 he married Helen E. Jennings.
