Number 529

Anne Ryan (1889-1954)

Date

ca. 1951
Object Type

Drawings
Medium

Paper and fabric on paperboard panel
Dimensions

15 1/8 x 11 3/8 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
signed l.r. in graphite: A Ryan
Verso:
l.l. in graphite: #529 / 110 x 55
l.r. in graphite: A Ryan
u.l. to u.r. in ink: Shown in 1951 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary \ American Sculptures, Watercolors & Drawings \ Whitney Museum of American Art March 17 to / \ May 6 1951
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1998.3
Copyright

© Estate of Anne Ryan care of Kraushaar Galleries, New York

Although Ryan took up collage late in her career, she was enormously prolific in the medium, producing roughly 400 such pieces between 1948 and 1954. In these works, she paid special attention to the tactile properties of fabric and paper, creating abstract, geometric compositions that play off the woven structures of these materials.

In Number 529, Ryan included gold foil, handmade papers, and textiles in a balanced arrangement of textured forms, juxtaposing the flattened wrinkles of fabric at the top left against the splayed, frayed edges of the swatch at center. Along the bottom edge, small triangles are torn out and peeled back from the paper, creating a line of irregular diamond shapes that offers a direct trace of the artist’s hand as she manipulated and arranged her materials.

—Text taken from the Carter Handbook (2023)

Set in Motion: Camille Utterback and Art That Moves

September 3–December 8, 2019

This exhibition pairs an interactive installation by new-media artist Camille Utterback with a century of art by women depicting motion from the Carter’s collection.

Location: Off view

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