 
Ryerson, Margery Austen (American)
1886-1989
Description: Set of four etchings, all pencil signed,
c. 7" x 10", full margins.
Condition: Excellent.
Biography: Painter and print maker Margery Austen Ryerson
was born in Morristown, New Jersey
in 1886,
and not only established a reputation
as
an artist but as an editor of
one of the
better-known books in American
art, "The
Art Spirit", which is a
compilation
of Ryerson's notes from the painting
classroom
of Robert Henri. She proposed
the idea to
Henri, and they worked together
on the editing
and completed the project for
publication
in 1923. One of the reasons the
book was
an attention getter was Henri's
focus on
encouraging artists to be free
and unique
in their expression, which in
its era was
a startling assertion. According
to art historian
Charlotte Rubinstein, "The
Art Spirit
ha become a classic, one of the
most influenctial
art books ever written in the
United States."
(167)
Ryerson's two most influential
painting teachers
were Robert Henri and Charles
W. Hawthorne,
and for Hawthorne, she was editor
of his
book, "Hawthorne on Painting",
similar in format to "The
Art Spirit".
Overall she specialized in paintings,
etchings
and lithographs of children.
As a printmaker,
she won the Emil Fuchs Prize
in 1924 from
the Brooklyn Society of Etchers.
Her painting
"Boy with Rabbit,"
1960, in the
collection of the New Jersey
Historical Society,
Newark, explores the rich color
contrasts
she responded to in a black child
wearing
a red pull-over sweater holding
a white rabbit,
his head against a pale rectangular
chair-back,
all contrasted against a strongly
blue sky.
Ryerson exhibited in Europe and
in the United
States at Mount Holyoke College,
South Hadley,
Massachusetts; Grand Central
Art Galleries,
New York City, in 1942; and the
Weyhe Gallery
in New York City in 1973.
She held memberships in the Provincetown
Art Association, Massachusetts;
California
Printmakers; Society of American
Etchers;
Washington (D.C.) Watercolor
Club; and Allied
Artists of America, New York
City.
The work of Margery Ryerson is
in the collections
of the Smithsonian Institution,
Washington,
D.C.; Zimmerli Art Museum, New
Brunswick,
New Jersey; Cleveland Museum
of Art; Brooklyn
Museum; New York Public Library;
Uffizi Gallery,
Florence, Italy; and Bibliotheque
Nationale,
Paris, France.
Margery Austen Ryerson died in
1989.
Credit AskArt sources
Jules and Nancy Heller, "North
American
Women Artists of the 20th Century"
Charlotte Rubinstein, "American
Women
Artists"
http://www.jerseyhistory.org/coll_paintings.html
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