The Essex Canal
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847–1917)
c. 1896
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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Why is it this affordable?
A thin, flat margin on every piece — just enough to keep the store running. Most of what you pay is the print itself. We only sell sizes that reproduce at full quality, and we don’t mark up the large sizes the way most shops do.
About this work
Albert Pinkham Ryder was one of the most innovative artists of the late 19th century, creating reductive, yet expressive compositions out of thick, slowly worked paint, combined with glazes, varnishes, and unconventional materials. In The Essex Canal, a waterway faintly meanders from the green-hued foreground to a skim of blue along the horizon, with an expansive sky beyond. A younger generation of American artists celebrated Ryder as an important early modernist, who pushed toward abstraction and focused on the arduous process of painting itself as instrumental to one’s creative vision. Ryder’s reclusiveness only added to his intrigue and mythic status as an artist ahead of his time.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas mounted on board
- Original size
- 41.3 × 52.1 cm (16 1/4 × 20 1/2 in.)
Museum record · 8 owners · 3 exhibitions
Provenance
- John Gellatly, New York, by 1918.
- Charles Melville Dewey, by 1932.
- Anderson Galleries, American Art Association sale (Dewey estate).
- April 8, 1937.
- Ferargil Galleries, New York, 1937.
- Jesse Sobol, New York, 1951.
- Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, sale, November 15, 1967.
- Herbert Geist, Chicago, 1967; given by him to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1980.
Exhibitions
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Exhibition of the Works of Albert P. Ryder, Mar. 11–Apr. 14, 1918, as The Canal.
- New York, Anderson Galleries, Nineteenth Century Paintings, 1937.
- New York, Parke–Bernet Galleries, American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, 1967.
