12/10/2015 1:57:02 PM
This is my first entry in what I am calling Chasing Chauncey. It is a record of my copies of the paintings of Chauncey Ryder and what I learn about him and his process along the way.
Currently I have been working on a lot of commission work for the Christmas Season. In-between commission pieces I like to work on smaller ideas or just experiment and play a little bit, kinda my reward.
This summer, while in Maine, I was introduced to an artist whose work I had never seen and I was immediately mesmerized. They work of Chauncey Ryder haunted me the entire trip. I searched online for anything I could find about him… which wasn’t much for those of us that like to deep dive. No books, no blog posts by other artists, just auction results and a handful of images of quality on the internet.
On occasion I have done some copying of other artists artwork, but not a lot. In my teens I painted a couple of Picasso’s and a Georgia O’Keefe… more recently I was curious about the way Daniel Pinkham used color, so I copied a painting of his.
I am not sure what it is about Ryder that haunts me. It could be his more bold use of color (not that it is garnish) his curious compositions, his abstracted shapes, his loose brushwork… I don’t know, but I am going to copy the paintings I have found. They will be small, so I can hold them in my hands, 5x7, and I have already done a couple of them.
I have been investigating his lineage and trying to find out what his palette was like. It has been fun to do and I look forward to doing more detective work! Here is the first Ryder that I have finished as part of my “mini copy collection.”
Chauncey Ryder copy
5x7"
Oil on linen
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