The Pasture

Artist Albert Pinkham Ryder American, 1847–1917

Date1875–1880

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions12 1/8 x 15 1/4 in. (30.8 x 38.7 cm)
Frame: 18 5/8 x 21 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (47.3 x 55.2 x 8.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)

Object numberG.52.9.26

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Provenance**Created United States, ca. 1875–1880; collection of the artist; Dr. Dudley Tenney [1], New York, by 1918; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York]; [C. W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York, by 1920]; estate of John F. Kraushaar, New York, 1946; [estate sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, April 9–10, 1947, no. 22]; Dr. Chester J. Robertson, Pelham Manor, NY; [Macbeth Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

[1] Ryder’s dentist.
Published ReferencesLoan Exhibition of the Works of Albert P. Ryder (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1918), no. 7, illus. (b-w).

Frederic Fairchild Sherman, Albert Pinkham Ryder (New York: Privately printed, 1920), listed in "Pictures Painted by Albert Pinkham Ryder," no. 80 (in the collection of C.W. Kraushaar).

Arts 1 (January 1921), illus. (b-w) 43.

American Art News 21 (January 6, 1923), 3.

Frederic Newlin Price, Ryder: A Study of Appreciation (New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1932), illus. (b-w) 129 (as The Pasture, collection of C.W. Kraushaar).

Parnassus 6 (November 1934), 9.

W.R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 30, illus. (b-w).

Lloyd Goodrich, Albert P. Ryder (New York: Braziller, 1959), illus. (b-w) pl. 15 (collection of Dr. C.J. Robertson).

American Paintings to 1900: Catalogue of Paintings, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 49, illus. (b-w).

Charles W. Stanford, Jr., Selections from British and American Painting and Sculpture (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1967), no. 32, illus. (b-w).

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 118, illus. (color) 119.

Robert F. Phifer Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), 82, illus. (b-w) 83.

American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art (brochure) (Charlotte: Mint Museum of Art, 1975), no. 32.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 251.

William Innes Homer and Lloyd Goodrich, Albert Pinkham Ryder: Painter of Dreams (New York: Abrams, 1989), listed 235, discussed 62, illus. (color) fig. 6-5.

Elizabeth Broun, Albert Pinkham Ryder (exhibition catalogue) (Washington: National Museum of American Art, 1990) discussed 268, illus. (color) fig. 4, also b-w.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Loan Exhibition of the Works of Albert P. Ryder," March 11-April 14, 1918, no. 7, illus. (b-w) (as The Pasture, lent by Dr. Dudley Tenney).

Buffalo, NY, Albright Art Gallery, "12th Annual American Artists' Exhibition," May 11-Sept. 9, 1918, no. [ ].

New York, NY, C.W. Kraushaar Galleries, 1920-21, no. 23.

New York, NY, C.W. Kraushaar Galleries, "Exhibition of Important Collections of Paintings and Bronzes by Modern Masters of American and European Art," 1922, illus. in cat.

New York, NY, Rockefeller Center, The Forum, "Fine Arts Exposition," November 3-December 1, 1934 (exhibited by Kraushaar Galleries).

San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Museum of Art, "American Forerunners of Modern Painting," 1936.

Washington, DC, Museum of Modern Art Gallery, "A Century of American Painting," March 1939.

Washington, DC, Museum of Modern Art, 1939.

Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, "Painting Today and Yesterday in the United States," June 5-September 1, 1941, no. 101(as Cow in Pasture, lent by Kraushaar Galleries).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 118, illus. (color) 119.

Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Robert F. Phifer Collection," March 31-May 13, 1973, 82, illus. (b-w) 83.

Charlotte, NC, Mint Museum of Art, "American Paintings from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," September 7-October 19, 1975, no. 32.

Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, "Inaugural Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 1-30, 1978.

Washington, DC, National Museum of American Art, "Albert Pinkham Ryder," April 6-July 29, 1990; Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Museum of Art, September 14, 1990-January 8, 1991, no. 46, illus. (color) fig. 4, also b-w.

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