Because this artist often applied new layers of paint before the old layers dried, his paintings are today suffused with wrinkles and cracks.
This artist wrote many poems based on his works, including the lines "In the morning, ashen-hued, came nymphs dancing through the wood" to accompany his painting Dancing Dryads. Poe's poem "The Haunted Palace" inspired his painting of three graces standing next to a fountain, The Temple of the Mind. His paintings of men on horseback meeting women in a forest include King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid and Roadside Meeting, and he was the sole American painter to be grouped with European masters like Cezanne, van Gogh, and Matisse in the Armory Show. Because this artist often applied new layers of paint before the old layers dried, his paintings are today suffused with wrinkles and cracks. His obsession with the sea resulted in his many paintings of moonlight marines, including Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens, Lord Ullin's Daughter, and Toilers of the Sea. He referred to one of his paintings as "the Reverse," alluding to the backwards direction of the central figure--that painting features a snake slithering behind a shadowy fence, and is sometimes called The ? Race Track. For 10 points, name this American painter of Jonah and Death on a Pale Horse.
This artist wrote many poems based on his works, including the lines "In the morning, ashen-hued, came nymphs dancing through the wood" to accompany his painting Dancing Dryads.
{Albert Pinkham Ryder}