Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Window

Anne Ryan

Date

c. 1947–48

Medium

Color woodcut on black paper

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Though her art career spanned only 16 years, Anne Ryan was much-admired during her lifetime for her abstract and semi-abstract paintings, woodcuts, and collages. The Window feature Ryan’s characteristic “white-line” woodblock technique in which distinct areas of color are simultaneously printed on black paper to establish strongly contrasting forms while also suggesting a nocturnal setting. It is representative of Ryan’s practice, which featured subjects ranging from figurative to still lifes to pure abstraction. United States, Americas

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