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...work of Thomas Cole and in the dark, brooding landscapes of Ralph Blakelock (1847-1919), who was to suffer a depressive breakdown and spend the last 20 years of his life in a mental hospital. But the exemplar of the visionary state was Blakelock's exact contemporary, Albert Pinkham Ryder...
...Over the years, many have proclaimed the death of Camelot. It actually occurred at Sotheby's, when it was sold for $34.5 million." DAVID S. PINKHAM Barrington, Rhode Island...
...artists who make other artists famous. A striking case in point, in America, was Albert Pinkham Ryder. This somewhat reclusive visionary was born in 1847; grew up in the whaling town of New Bedford, Mass.; studied in New York City; spent most of his working life there and died in 1917. As far as is known, he painted fewer than 200 works. Yet a succession of American artists has looked up to him as a sage, a holy man: the native prophet who linked tradition to modernism...
...Albert Pinkham Ryder had visionary gifts but also, a new show reveals, feeble draftsmanship, overblown poeticism and techniques that have caused his canvases to deteriorate disastrously...
...ALBERT PINKHAM RYDER, National Museum of American Art, Washington. Ryder (1847-1917) was a familiar type -- the unwashed, eccentric recluse -- but his small, shadowy paintings are unlike anything seen before or since: elegiac, visionary, haunting. Through July...