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Anne Ryan (1889–1954) was a poet and collage maker who joined the New York School in 1941. She was influenced by Kurt Schwitters' collages and created over 400 works with paper and fabric scraps.
Anne Ryan (1889–1954) was an American Abstract Expressionist artist associated with the New York School. Her first contact with the New York City avant-garde came in 1941 when she joined the Atelier 17, a famous printmaking workshop that the British artist Stanley William Hayter had established in Paris in the 1930s and then brought to New ...
A poet and longtime resident of Greenwich Village, where her neighbors included many artists and writers associated with the New York School, Ryan began painting at the age of forty-nine. Ten years later, in 1948, an exhibition of work by the German artist Kurt Schwitters inspired Ryan to adopt the medium of collage.
Sep 23, 2022 · Collection gallery. Sep 23, 2022–Apr 9, 2024. “In the secret country where the solitary mind exists,” Anne Ryan once wrote, “all colors, arcs, patterns, images, have steady room for themselves to move about and resolve at last under the fingers.” Touch was central to her collage practice.
The poet and artist Anne Ryan (1889-1954) is best known for producing a raft of delicate, sometimes wild collages in her last years, galvanized by a 1950 exhibition of Kurt Schwitters’s...
Anne Ryan. By The New Yorker. March 9, 2017. Twenty tiny masterpieces—arrangements of paper and fabric scraps—reaffirm Ryan as the premier collagist of Abstract Expressionism. She made...
Anne Ryan (1889–1954) was a pioneer of collage and a member of the New York School. She was inspired by Kurt Schwitters' collages and incorporated various materials into her small-scale works.
