Object Details
Artist
Albert Pinkham Ryder, born New Bedford, MA 1847-died New York City 1917
Luce Center Label
Albert Pinkham Ryder painted with a "wet-on-wet" technique, by adding new layers of thick paint and varnish before the previous ones had a chance to dry. This overloaded the work to such an extent that one visitor described his work as a "boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly," and some paintings are still soft a hundred years later. At one point, In the Stable was covered with a network of cracks known as alligatoring, the worst of which have since been filled by a conservator. The white horse in the image was modeled after Ryder’s horse Charley, which he owned as a child in New Bedford, Massachusetts. (Broun, Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1989)
Luce Object Quote
"I have been working to get my paint less painty looking than any man who went before me . . ." Ryder, Wood diary no. 6, August 1896, Wood Papers, Huntington Library, quoted in Broun, Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1989
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly
Date
before 1911
Object number
1929.6.97
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard
Dimensions
21 x 32 in. (53.3 x 81.3 cm)
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Department
Painting and Sculpture
Data Source
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Topic
Figure
Animal\horse
Architecture\farm\stable
Occupation\farm\farmer
Link to Original Record
Record ID
saam_1929.6.97