Mixed media collage on paper, c. 1950, signed 'A Ryan' lower right, with label from Washburn Gallery, NY, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY, Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY and Sidney Janis Gallery, NY.

7 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (sheet), 13 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (frame).

Note: Anne Ryan was a self-taught writer, printmaker and painter who began making collages at age fifty-eight. The medium would become her preferred creative expression over the last six years of her life. Ryan was introduced to collage-making during a visit to a 1948 exhibition of the work of German sculptor and collagist Kurt Schwitters. In her earliest collage works from 1949-1950, Ryan emulates Schwitters' incorporation of snippets of language into the composition, as here.

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