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Chauncey Foster Ryder American, 1868-1949 Mount Lovewell near Hillsborough, New Hampshire Signed Chauncey F. Ryder (ll) Oil on canvas 44 1/4 x 56 1/4 inches Provenance: Private collection Chauncey Ryder studied in Chicago before moving to Paris in 1901, where he enrolled at the Academie Julian and trained privately under Jean-Paul Laurens and Raphael Collin. From 1901 to 1909, he showed annually at the Paris Salon. On his return to the United States in 1907, he adopted a Tonalist approach, capturing the poetic qualities in native scenery. He often depicted the landscape near his summer home in Wilton, New Hampshire, from which he traveled frequently into the White Mountains. On one such trip, he painted Lovewell Mountain, associated with Sunapee Ridge. He captured the subject reductively, contrasting the stark solidity of the peak against atmospheric ethereality of the sky. The painting illustrates Ryder's "feeling that nature is imperturbable and everlasting-far above the tribulations of a 'civilized' world--prepared to give restless strength a much-needed stability." (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1935-36) C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC