In the Stable

Albert Pinkham Ryder, In the Stable, before 1911, oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of John Gellatly, 1929.6.97
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Artwork Details

Title
In the Stable
Artist
Date
before 1911
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
21 x 32 in. (53.3 x 81.3 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of John Gellatly
Mediums
Mediums Description
oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard
Classifications
Subjects
  • Animal — horse
  • Figure
  • Occupation — farm — farmer
  • Architecture — farm — stable
Object Number
1929.6.97
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1929.6.97

Artwork Description

Albert Pinkham Ryder painted with a "wet-on-wet" technique, by adding new layers of thick paint and varnish before the previous ones had a chance to dry. This overloaded the work to such an extent that one visitor described his work as a "boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly," and some paintings are still soft a hundred years later. At one point, In the Stable was covered with a network of cracks known as alligatoring, the worst of which have since been filled by a conservator. The white horse in the image was modeled after Ryder’s horse Charley, which he owned as a child in New Bedford, Massachusetts. (Broun, Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1989)