Albert P. Ryder

Albert Pinkham Ryder, along with Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, is recognized as one of the great "ancestors" of American painting, although he was largely unknown in his own time. Twentieth-century taste discovered him and his mystical pictures have had a profound effect on modern abstract art. Lloyd Goodrich is Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art under whose auspices his definitive biography of Thomas Eakins was published in 1933. For many years Mr. Goodrich has been carrying on r