Anne Ryan (1889-1954) was a self-starter. In 1923 she left a marriage in New Jersey for the life of a poet and journalist, traveling alone to Europe and then settling in Greenwich Village, where she opened a restaurant to support her children (and did the cooking herself). She began painting in 1938, when she was almost 50. In 1941 she enrolled in Stanley William Hayter's print-making workshop and learned everything: etching, intaglio, monotype, woodcut and printing and carving on plaster ... After she saw a Kurt Schwitters show in 1948, collage became her passion, and those she produced in her last six years remain a rich and understudied highlight of postwar New York modernism.
Via Even Cleveland.
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