Career
He spent his early years driving cattle in the American southwest, painting backdrops on Hollywood back-lots and serving in the military. Self-taught, Ryder"s soft pastels colored paintings captured the dusty bruding southwestern twilight skies. Jack van Ryder"s exhibitions included the Gainsborough Galleries and the Montross Gallery in New New York
Ryder died of a self-inflicted gunshot would on March 23, 1967.