Albert Pinkham Ryder collection
name: label: Creator
content: Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 1847-1917
label: Names
content: Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973
label: Names
content: Fitzpatrick, Charles
label: Names
content: Fitzpatrick, Louise
label: Names
content: Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 1847-1917
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming by Harold Love, 1965. Love purchased the items from Philip Evergood in 1962. Evergood had received them, along with Ryder paintings, from the home of Charles and Louise Fitzpatrick. Evergood's mother and Louise Fitzpatrick were good friends. Fitzpatrick was a friend and benefactor of Ryder, and Mrs. Fitzpatrick had been his pupil. Love donated the originals to the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1983.
creator: label: Creator
content: Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 1847-1917
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Landscape painter and poet; New York City.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 23 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1869-1927
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.rydealbp
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel D181 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in the Whitney Museum of American Art.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence; poems by Ryder; writings about him; notes; and clippings, compiled by Philip Evergood and Charles and Louise Fitzpatrick.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are a biographical essay by Charles Fitzpatrick, 1917, Ryder's friend and benefactor; an essay by Evergood, "The Master's Faithful Disciple," ca. 1950; a letter from Ryder's neice, Gertrude Ryder Smith, to Louise Fitzpatrick, 1917; a letter from Louise Fitzpatrick to Flora Evergood (Philip's mother), 1927; two letters relating to a Life Magazine article on Ryder; a photograph of the Fitzpatrick house; five letters from Ryder to various people; typescript of Ryder's criticism of James T. White & Co.'s galley proof; "Analysis of Albert Ryder's Handwriting," by Nathaniel Pousette-Dart; six poems in Ryder's hand and a printed copy of "Voice of the Forest"; a letter to Ryder from Frederick Lessore regarding a portrait bust of Ryder, and one from A. Ludwig; notes on Ryder's ancestry; and six newspaper clippings, 1869-1917.