Henning Ryden (1869 - 1939)

 

A very delicate low relief dated 1900.

Recalling the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)

Donated to the coach house by Stuart Fullerton.

painter, engraver, and sculptor, Henning Ryden was born in Blekinge, Sweden. He studied in Stockholm and Copenhagen before immigrating to America in 1891. He continued studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, in Paris, London, and Berlin. 

 He settled in Chicago where he worked in sculpture and painted landscapes and exhibited work in the Swedish-American art exhibitions and at the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 in San Francisco.