Born: 1889, Hoboken, New Jersey
Died: 1954, Morristown, New Jersey
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1941 - The Pinacotheca, New York (Paintings)
Marquie Gallery, New York (Prints)
1942 - New School for Social Research, New York (Prints)
1943 - Marquie Gallery, New York (Paintings and engravings)
1944 - Marquie Gallery, New York (Prints)
1946 - The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia (Prints)
Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin at the Instituto Mexicano Norte-Americano de Relaciones Culturales, Mexico City (Prints)
1946 - Marquie Gallery, New York (Prints)
1947 - Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield, MI (Prints)
Laurel Gallery, New York
Berea College, Berea, KY and Wesleyan College, Macon, GA (Prints)
1948 - Marquie Gallery, New York (First exhibition of collages)
Gallery Denise Severin, Paris (First European exhibition of prints)
Laurel Gallery, New York (Collages)
Laurel Gallery, New York (Paintings)
1949 - Armour Gallery, Providence
Laurel Gallery, New York (Collages)
Kharouba Gallery, Portland, OR (Collages and prints)
1950 - Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (Collages)
1951 - Kraushaar Gallery, New York (Prints)
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (Collages)
1954 - Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (Collages)
1955 - Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (Memorial exhibition, paintings and collages)
1956 - St. Elizabeth's College, Convent Station, New Jersey
1957 - Kraushaar Gallery, New York (Memorial exhibition, prints)
1962-63 - New England preparatory schools and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(Circulating exhibition)
1964 - Stable Gallery, New York (Collages)
1968 - Fischbach Gallery, New York (Collages)
1970 - Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (Collages)
1974 - Brooklyn Museum, New York and National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (Collages); subsequently travelled under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts to the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi and the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton
Marlborough Gallery, New York (Collages)
1977 - Marlborough Gallery, New York (Collages)
1978 - Kraushaar Gallery, New York (Woodcuts)
1978 - Kraushaar Gallery, New York (Woodcuts)
1979 - Museum of Modern Art, New York (collages)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (Collages)
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York (Collages)
1979-80 - Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (Collages)
1980 - Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX (Collages)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (Collages)
1981 - Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York (Collages)
University of Missouri, St. Louis (Collages)
1985 - Washburn Gallery, New York (Collages)
1989 - Washburn Gallery, New York (Collages)
1991 - Washburn Gallery, New York (Collages)
1998 - Washburn Gallery, New York (Collages)
2001 - Musee D'Art American, Giverny, July 10-Sept. 3
2008 - Washburn Gallery, New York (Collages)
2010 - Museum of Modern Art, New York (Collages)
2017 - Davis and Langdale, New York (Collages)
2022 - Washburn Gallery, New York (Collages)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1944 "Hayter & Atelier XVII," Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1945 "Atelier XVII," Willard Gallery, New York.
"National Exhibition of Prints, 1945," Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
1947-53 Exhibited annually in exhibition of prints at the Brooklyn Museum, NY.
1947 Grand Central Gallery, New York (Prints)
"45th Annual Watercolor and Print Exhibition." Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
1950-51 Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL.
1951 "Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America," Museum of Modern Art, New York.
"Some American Prints, 1945-1959," Museum of Modern Art, New York and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
"Arshile Gorky Y el Arte Contemporaneo Norte Americano," La Galeria Arquitac, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Ninth Street Gallery, New York.
1952 "New Expressions in Fine Printmaking," Brooklyn Museum, New York.
"50th Annual International Exhibition of Watercolors, Prints and Drawings," Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
1953 "Contemporary American Prints," Boston Public Library, MA.
Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
"14 Painter-Printmakers," Stable Gallery, New York
Tanager Gallery, New York.
"Modern Amerikaanse Grafick," Gemeentemuseum Gravenhage, The Netherlands.
1954 "14 Painter-Printmakers," Kraushaar Gallery, New York later circulated by the American Federation of Arts.
"New Jersey Artists," Newark Museum, Newark, NJ.
1954-55 "International Color Woodcuts," Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
1956 "International Collage Exhibition," Rose Fried Gallery, New York.
"Abstract Art (1910 to Today)," Newark Museum, NJ.
1961-62 "Assemblages," Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art, TX and San Francisco Museum of Art, CA. (Organized by Mr. William Seitz)
1965-67 "American Collages," Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 10-June 25, 1965 and travelling: State University College, Oswego, NY; Wells College, Aurora, NY;
Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA; Allentown Art Museum, PA; Goucher College, Towsen, MD; Kresge Art Center-Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Cowe College, Cedar Rapids, IA; Delaware Arts Center, Wilmington, DE;
State University Collage, Geneseo, NY; Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Museum Voor Stad en Lande, Groningen, The Netherlands; Court Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Kunsternes Hus, Oslo, Sweden; Amos Anderson Art Gallery, Helsinki, Finland; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
(Travelled through June 18, 1967)
1968 "Betty Parsons' Private Collection," Finch College Museum of Art, New York; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield, MI; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery,
Memphis, TN.
1976 "American Painting," Davis & Long, New York.
1977 "Twelve Americans: Masters of College," Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York.
1979 "Collages: American Masters," Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ.
1984 "American Women Artists Part I: 20th Century Pioneers," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (Collages)
"Underknown; 12 Artists Reseen in 1984," P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY (Collages)
1985 "Preview and Review," Washburn Gallery, New York.
1986 "Two Decades: 1950 & 1960," Washburn Gallery, New York
1987 "Anne Ryan & Circle," Washburn Gallery, New York.
1988 "Past Present," Washburn Gallery, New York.
1991 "Past Present," Washburn Gallery, New York.
1993 "Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, NC
"Works on Paper", Washburn Gallery, NY
1996 "Agnes Martin, Alice Trumbull Mason and Anne Ryan," Washburn Gallery,NY
2000-2001 "Merz: From Kurt Schwitters to the Present Day"
Traveling exhibition in Germany:
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Kunstammlung Nordrhein Westfallen, Dusseldorf
Haus Der Kunst Munchen
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA.
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Ciba-Geigy Art Collection, Ardsley, NJ.
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ.
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ.
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.
Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
College Art Gallery, State University College, New Paltz, NY.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC.
ARCHIVES
Newark Public Library, Newark (literary papers), NJ.
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, NY.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Ryan, Anne. Raquel, 1926 (novel).
Ryan, Anne. Fra Junipero Serra, 1932 (biography).
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Ryan, Anne. "She was Divorced," Folder Magazine, 1954 (story).
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