Word: pinkham
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...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...