In+the+Stable

Date: before 1911
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1929/1929.6.97_1a.jpg?itok=wvG6s57A width="352" height="236" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/stable-21448"]] || Title: **In the Stable**

Artist: **Albert Pinkham Ryder** Born: New Bedford, Massachusetts 1847 Died: New York, New York 1917

Medium: oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard Dimensions: 21 x 32 in. (53.3 x 81.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum  Gift of John Gellatly

Accession: 1929.6.97 || 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).
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