Biografie von Margery Austen RYERSON (1886-1989)

Birth place: Morristown, NJ.

Death place: Rye Brook, NY

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, etcher, teacher, writer, illustrator

Studied: Vassar Col. (A.B.); ASL with Robert Henri; Charles W. Hawthorne in Provincetown, MA.

Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1918-35 (9 times); Corcoran Gal biennials, 1919, 1930; AIC; WMAA, 1938; NAD, 1959 (Maynard Prize); CAM; Phila. SE; Southern PM; Calif. PM; Phila. Pr. Cl.; All. Artists Am.; NAC, 1971 (silver medal); Montclair Art Mus. (prize); NJ WC Soc., Morristown, 1971; AWCS, 1962 (Hook Prize);1972; Audubon Artists, 1972; Grand Central Art Gals., NYC, 1970s.

Member: ANA; SAE; Wash. WCC; Calif. PM; Grand Central Art Gal.; Provincetown AA; Phila. SE; Southern PMS; Chicago SE; AWCS (life mem.); All. A. Am. (life mem.; vice-pres. 1952-53); NJ WC Soc.; NAC; Woodstock AA; Audubon Artists (corresp. secy., 1958-59); Soc. Am. Graphic Artists (recording secy.)

Work: oil portrait, Vassar College Gal., Poughkeepsie; CMA; Smithsonian; Roerich Mus., NYC; Frye Mus., Seattle, WA; etchings, MMA; oil portrait, Philbrook AC, Tulsa, OK; etching, Bibliothèque Nat., Paris, France. Commissions: many portraits.

Comments: Daughter of Mary Ryerson (see entry). Preferred media: watercolors, oils. Publications: editor, The Art Spirit, 1923; editor, Hawthrone on Painting, 1936; illustrator, Winkie Boo, 1948; contributor, The Artist, 1960; contributor, Am. Artist.

Sources: WW73; WW47; E. Hobson, An Artist and a Child," Foster's Daily Democrat, Dover, NH, August 15, 1970; Doris di Savino, "Yesterday and Today", Trends, March 26, 1972; Woodstock AA; Falk, Exh. Record Series.