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ANNE RYAN Now, Ever Awake, My Master Dear, I Fear a Deadly Storm.
Color woodcut on black wove paper, 1947. 205x248 mm; 8x9 3/4 inches, wide margins. Signed in white ink, lower right.
Following a troubled marriage, Ryan (1889-1954) moved with her children to Majorca for some time before returning to New York (she grew up in New Jersey and often visited New York City) to pursue a career in art that she had only previously dabbled in while being a mother. She became friends with the sculptor Tony Smith and the painter Hans Hofmann, who encouraged her artistic talents. Her first solo exhibition at Rose Fried's Pinacotheca Gallery in 1941, which featured representational and abstract paintings, brought Ryan some recognition, but she continued to rely on her poetry writing to earn a living. Some of her first prints appeared in this year, and included landscape etchings, figure studies and images of constellations that evoke Abstract Surrealism. At Atelier 17, Ryan learned to make color woodcuts from a 1945 class taught by Louis Schanker. She was also friends with Atelier 17 artist and Greenwich Village neighbor Jackson Pollock.
