#anne ryan

[garadinervi]

Anne Ryan, Number 412, (cut-and-pasted colored and painted paper and cloth on colored paper), 1951 [MoMA, New York, NY. © Estate of Anne Ryan, Courtesy Washburn Gallery, New York]

[abwwia]

Anne Ryan (1889-1954)

Untitled (no. 179), 1948-1954

Washburn Gallery

Anne Ryan (1889–1954) was an American Abstract Expressionist artist associated with the New York School.[1] 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 York when France fell to the Nazis.[2] The great turning point in Ryan's development occurred after the war, in 1948. She was 57 years old when she saw the collages of Kurt Schwitters at the Rose Fried Gallery, in New York City, in 1948. She right away dedicated herself to this newly discovered medium. Since Anne Ryan was a poet, according to Deborah Solomon,[3] in Kurt Schwitters's collages “she recognized the visual equivalent of her sonnets – discrete images packed together in an extremely compressed space.” When six years later Ryan died, her work in this medium numbered over 400 pieces. via W

[asfaltics]

a something of leaves, a something of shadow

  So trees produced oxygen in the form of words.   ₁

he drew a few lines to indicate the streets and it looked like the branch of a tree with names standing out on the twigs.   ₂ a forest of interesting, nitpicking names   ₁

when one considers the picture more closely that a something of incoherent and flimsy obtrudes. The roads run nowhither   ₃

and the words give out their scent, and ripple like leaves, and chequer us with light and shadow   ₄

a something of shadow, Es un algo de sombra   ₅

scarcely clear enough to be called ideas. They had something to do with fragrance and colour and sound, but almost nothing to do with words   ₆

the darkest leaf of her whole life-tree, the senses’ darkest leaf, least understood, least accounted for   ₂

tears flow from the uselessness of words   ₁

—

sources

1 three leaves, from Murray Bail, Eucalyptus (1998) 2 Anne Ryan. “The Darkest Leaf.” Botteghe Oscure 22 (1958) : 272-306 / paragraph 34 : more 3 William D. McKay on the painter J. C. Wintour, in his The Scottish School of Painting (London, 1906) : 311 / more 4 Virginia Woolf, “On Being Ill,” in The Criterion, vol. 4 (January 1926) : 32-45 hathitrust : link 5 ex Julia de Burgos, “Es un algo de sombra,” (It is a something of shadow), in Song of the Simple Truth : obra completa poética : the complete poems. Compiled and translated by Jack Agueros (Curbstone Press, 1996) : 172-175 more 6 Willa Sibert Cather, The Song of the Lark (1915) : 299-300 Harvard copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link

20260507  

[lisamarie-vee]

[villasugandhala]

Anne Ryan, "Untitled" (1951), mixed media collage on paper

[the-cricket-chirps]

Anne Ryan, Untitled no. 284, ca. 1948–54

[acarbonbasedlifeform]

Anne Ryan: Number 706 (Red Collage No. III). 1954. 

Cut-and-pasted colored and printed paper, and cloth on corrugated cardboard

[abstracteddistractions]

Anne Ryan, “Untitled (no. 179),” c. 1948-54, 

Collage, 8 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches,

Courtesy the Estate of Anne Ryan and Washburn Gallery, New York