
Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847–1917)
The Windmill, c. 1890–1900
Oil on canvas, 16 x 14 in.
Unsigned
Provenance: Dr. Albert T. Sanden, New York (acquired directly from the artist by 1918); Ferargil Gallery, New York (acquired May 1924); Mrs. D. H. Reese, Connecticut; Chester Dale, New York (acquired by 1947); A. Bradley Martin, Long Island, New York (acquired by 1959)
Exhibited: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1918 - 1924 (on extended loan); New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Albert P. Ryder Centenary Exhibition, October - November 1947, no. 52, p. 47; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Albert Pinkham Ryder, April - May 1961, no. 41, p. 52 ; Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art and New York, Brooklyn Museum, Albert Pinkham Ryder, April 1990 - January 1991, no. 75, pp. 70, 73, illustrated, 159, 251, 284, 309, illustrated and 310
Literature: “Albert P. Ryder: A Poe of the Brush,” New York Press, 16 December 1906, p. 5; Lloyd Goodrich, Albert P. Ryder, New York, 1959, no. 16, p. 48, illustrated;
Mildred Jeanette Crawford Roy, "Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1847-1917," Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1970; William Innes Homer and Lloyd Goodrich, Albert Pinkham Ryder: Painter of Dreams, New York, 1989, pp. 120-21, illustrated; 201, and 238