The Forest of Arden
1888–97 (?), reworked 1908 (?)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
19 x 15 in. (48.3 x 38.1 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960
Accession Number
61.101.36
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the enchanting *The Forest of Arden*, a poetic landscape by American artist Albert Pinkham Ryder, painted between approximately 1888–97 and reworked around 1908. This oil on canvas, measuring just 19 x 15 inches, captures the lush, shadowy depths of an idealized woodland—likely inspired by the Forest of Arden from Shakespeare's * You Like It*. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing, it entered the collection through the 1960 bequest of Stephen C. Clark, Ryder's enduring appeal among discerning collectors. Ryder, a reclusive visionary of late 19th-century American a...
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...