Collages by
Anne Ryan (1889-1954) date from the last five or six years of her short
artistic career and for that matter, of her life. Right now they are having a
moment.
The piece shown
here, dated 1951 and made on Douglas Howell paper, is currently on view at
Rutgers University’s Zimmerli Art Museum in Innovation and Abstraction: Women
Artists and Atelier 17, through May 31.
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| Anne Ryan, Collage, 1951 |
It is more cubist
grid than expressionist composition like those on view in the Museum of Modern
Art’s Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, on view through
August 13. In his New York Times review of Friday, April 14, Holland Cotter wrote
that “the exquisite, centrifugally spinning collages … were inspired as much by
life as by other art.” Speaking of the show as a whole he decries the absence
of many of these works from the permanent collection galleries where they would
hang with those of male colleagues.
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