Mending the Harness
Albert Pinkham Ryder
mid to late 1870s
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 48.3 x 57.2 cm (19 x 22 1/2 in.) framed: 64.8 x 72.7 x 7 cm (25 1/2 x 28 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Sam A. Lewisohn
Accession Number
1951.5.3
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...