The Essex Canal  1896

Albert Pinkham Ryder was one of the most innovative artists of the late 19th century, creating reductive, yet expressive compositions out of thick, slowly worked paint, combined with glazes, varnishes, and unconventional materials. In [i]The Essex Canal[/i], a waterway faintly meanders from the green-hued foreground to a skim of blue along the horizon, with an expansive sk...