Incredible, rare and desirable original and early (c1930s) original India ink painting from 20th century New York School Artist Anne Ryan (1889-1954).  

Presumably painted before she started her collage phase in 1948.  Depicts an eye catching Central Park?, New York landscape scene complete with trees and stone bridge.  Impressive and bold lines, vigorous, yet controlled.  Medium is India black ink or perhaps even gouache or watercolor paint on handlaid paper done in a Modernist/Expressionist style.  Signed at the base in pencil Anne Ryan and again on the base of the mat.  Mounted to original paperboard mat and ready to frame.

In Acceptable/Good overall condition.  Exhibits moderate toning and gentle signs of wear.  Vertical etched line partially down the center which may or may not have been done by the artist for it feels organic to the piece (see photo 11).  Regardless something not seen until a closer inspection is done.  No holes, rips or tears.  Eye catching and appealing.  Displays handsomely.

Anne Ryan (1889–1954) was an American Abstract Expressionist artist associated with the New York School.[1] Her first contact with the New York City avant-garde came in 1941 when she joined the Atelier 17, a famous printmaking workshop that the British artist Stanley William Hayter had established in Paris in the 1930s and then brought to New York when France fell to the Nazis. The great turning point in Ryan's development occurred after the war, in 1948. She was 57 years old when she saw the collages of Kurt Schwitters at the Rose Fried Gallery, in New York City, in 1948. She right away dedicated herself to this newly discovered medium. Since Anne Ryan was a poet, according to Deborah Solomon,[2] in Kurt Schwitters’s collages “she recognized the visual equivalent of her sonnets – discrete images packed together in an extremely compressed space.” When six years later Ryan died, her work in this medium numbered over 400 pieces.

Provenance comes from a southern Connecticut area estate from an impressive collection of Artists including Robert Natkin.

Measures 16” x 12” and 21 1/2” x 19 3/8” with the mat.

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