Ryerson, Martin Antoine, 1856-1932

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role

Collector

dates

1856-1932

city

Chicago

state

IL

other cities

Cambridge, MA;

sex

M

historical notes

Martin Antoine Ryerson was a collector, lawyer, one of the founders of the Chicago Art Institute, and the son of the lumber merchant and real estate investor Martin L. Ryerson (1818–1887).

Ryerson's collection was wide in scope and included work from the early Italian Renaissance, Dutch and Flemish masters, French Impressionism, nineteenth-century American, and Asian art. He owned work by, among others, Monet, Homer, Caspar Netscher, Mary Cassatt, Sargent, François Bonvin, Claude Monet, Francisco Goya, Odilon Redon, Edouard Vuillard, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean Louis Forain, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jan van Goyen, Alfred Sisley, Johan Barthold Jongkind, Paul Cézanne, and Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Ryerson left both his art collection and library (25,000 art books) to the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.

decades
of activity

1870-1880
1890-1900
1890-1900
1900-1910
1910-1920
1920-1930

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Archives/Repository	Collection Title	Collection Details
Archives of American Art Victor Building, Suite 2200	August Jaccaci papers, 1889-1935 (bulk 1904-1914).	see details...
University of Chicago, Library	Ryerson, Martin A. Papers, 1877-1878.	see details...
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	M. Knoedler & Co. records, approximately 1848-1971	see details...