The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)
c. 1896–1908
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847–1917)
American Painting and Sculpture
The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse), c. 1896–1908. Albert Pinkham Ryder (American, 1847–1917). Oil on canvas; framed: 84.5 x 102 x 6.5 cm (33 1/4 x 40 3/16 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 70.5 x 90 cm (27 3/4 x 35 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1928.8 Counterclockwise horse racing in the United States was not standardized until the 1920s.
- Maker/Artist
- Ryder, Albert Pinkham
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 84.5 x 102 x 6.5 cm (33 1/4 x 40 3/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 70.5 x 90 cm (27 3/4 x 35 7/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower left: "A. P. Ryder"
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1928.8
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today, Expressionism and Related Movements, The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Art of the United States: 1670-1966, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976, Kaleidoscope of American Painting, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Conserving the Past for the Future, Cleveland Collects American Art of the Gilded Age, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Exhibition of the Works of Albert P. Ryder (11 March - 14 April 1918), cat. no. 48, pl. 48., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1918–1924)., New York, Anderson Galleries, American Art from the Collections of Members of the Associated Dealers in American Painting (8 - 26 February 1927)., Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Thomas Eakins, Albert P. Ryder, and J. Alden Weir (1928)., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Sixth Loan Exhibition: Winslow Homer, Albert P. Ryder, Thomas Eakins (May 1930), no. 61, p. 61., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Taste of Today in Masterpieces of Painting Before 1900 (10 July - 2 October 1932)., Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, The Century of Progress Exhibition (1 June - 1 November 1933), no. 475., Paris, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Trois Siècles d'Art aux États-Unis (May - July 1938), no. 144.<br> New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Art in Our Time: The Tenth Anniversary Exhibition of The Museum of Modern Art (April - October 1939), cat. no. 26, pl. 26., New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Two American Romantics of the Nineteenth Century: Robert Loftin Newman 1827-1912, Albert Pinkham Ryder 1847 - 1917 (13 November - 2 December 1939), no. 9., Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Night Scenes (15 February - 7 March 1940), no. 56., Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Survey of American Painting (24 October - 15 December 1940), cat. no. 205 (not ill.), London, The Tate Gallery, American Painting: from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (Summer 1946), cat. no. 178., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Ryder Centenary Exhibition (18 October - 30 November 1947), no. 31, ill. p. 34., Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition: Masterpieces of American Painting (4 November 1950 - 11 February 51); no. 62., New York, National Academy of Design, The American Tradition Exhibition of Paintings (3 December - 16 December1951), no. 120, ill. p. 44., Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Expressionism in American Painting (10 May - 29 June 1952), no. 4, ill. p. 13., Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Hundert Jahre Amerikanische Malerei 1800-1900, An Exhibition Circulated by the American Federation of Arts (14 March - 3 May 1953); traveled to München, Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen (15 May - 28 June 1953); traveled to Hamburg, Kunstalle (18 July - 30 August 1953), cat. no. 78, p. 34, ill. p. 21., Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Mostra di Pittura Americana del XIX Secolo (19 January - 7 February 1954), cat. no. 53, pl. 19., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Painting in the Nineteenth Century (1954), cat. no. 53., Washington, D. C., The Corcoran Gallery, The American Muse (1959), cat. no. 63., Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976 (6 March - 11 April 1976), cat. no. 26; traveled to Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts (5 May - 13 June 1976); traveled to Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art (4 July - 15 August 1976); traveled to Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art (8 September - 10 October 1976)., Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kaleidoscope of American Painting, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2 December 1977 - 22 January 1978), no. 37, ill. p. 34., Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, The Art of Albert Pinkham Ryder (6 April - 29 July 1990); traveled to Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art (14 September 1990 - 8 January 1991); exhibition catalog published for the NMAA by the Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 1989), p.l 98, fig 86, cat. no. 51, p. 275.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 207 American Realism
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