Landscape
1897–98 (?)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
9 1/2 x 14 in. (24.1 x 35.6 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Frederick Kuhne, 1952
Accession Number
52.199
Tags
Art Historical Context
Albert Pinkham Ryder's *Landscape* (ca. 1897–98), a compact oil on canvas measuring just 9½ × 14 inches, captures the artist's signature poetic vision of the American countryside. Featuring cows grazing amid rolling hills and distant figures of men, this intimate scene evokes a timeless rural serenity, blending everyday pastoral elements with a mystical aura. Housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing, it reflects Ryder's late-career fascination with nature's quiet drama, gifted to the museum in 1952 by Frederick Kuhne. Ryder, a reclusive New York artist active in the late 19th ...
About the Artist
Albert Pinkham Ryder · 1847–1917
Largely self-taught, Albert Pinkham Ryder is widely considered one of America's greatest visionary painters. His intense use of color and mysterious themes are distinctly Romantic. Ryder moved with his family from New Bedford, Massachusetts to New York in 187, where he studied briefly at the New York National Academy of Design. He studied the engravings of Camille Corot and other Barbizon painters...