Oil paintings by Abbey Ryan

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Oyster with Lemon (commission)

Oyster with Lemon
oil on linen on panel, 2022, 5"x6"
Commission (sold)

I completed this small commission painting earlier this year and I've also been working on a very large commission painting. I hope to be able to share about it later this month, so keep an eye out. In the meantime, I'll be back to posting auction paintings this week. If you don't already follow me, I share updates and studio views at @abbeyryan8 on instagram here and facebook here.

If you enjoy this painting, you may also like to see Still Life with Oysters, Peeled Lemon, and Silver Pitcher with Self-portrait Reflection (2018, larger painting), Oyster No. 3 (2010), or a bunch of my paintings of oysters.

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Still Life with Oysters, Peeled Lemon, and Silver Pitcher with Self-portrait Reflection

Still Life with Oysters, Peeled Lemon, and Silver Pitcher (with Self-Portrait Reflection)
oil on linen on panel, 2018, 16"x12"
$6200
Update: Sold

If you enjoy this painting, you may also like to see Self-portrait in a Blue Vase and Eight Figs, Jug and Heirloom Tomatoes (with Self Portrait Reflection), Two Satsuma Tangerines, or a bunch of my paintings with self-portrait reflections in them or paintings with peeling fruit or my paintings of oysters.

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Oyster (+ Annie Dillard's impossible pages)

For his contributions at the NYTimes, I always really enjoy Sam Anderson's work, and earlier this year he published a great piece in the New York Times Magazine entitled "Annie Dillard’s Impossible Pages: Three early and unpublished works by the author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek." If you haven't sought it out, there's a classic and wonderful chapter about "Seeing" in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ("a long nonfictional account of her experience embedding, Thoreau-style, for a year of close observation of the titular waterway in Virginia.") Here's the beginning of Anderson's article:

"It’s unclear what to call Annie Dillard, where to shelve her. Over more than 40 years, she has been, sometimes all at once, a poet, essayist, novelist, humorist, naturalist, critic, theologian, collagist and full-throated singer of mystic incantations. Instead of being any particular kind of writer, she is, flagrantly, a consciousness — an abstract, all-encompassing energy field that inhabits a given piece of writing the way sunlight clings to a rock: delicately but with absolute force, always leaving a shadow behind. This is an essential part of what it means to be human, this shifting between the transcendent self and the contingent world, the ecstasy and the dental bill. We all do some version of it, all the time. But Dillard does it more insistently...." [Keep reading]

Auction ending soon at 2 PM EST:
Still Life with Blood Orange Slices

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Oyster with Lemon (+ the David's ankles)

If you're interested, in this recent New York Times Magazine article, "David’s Ankles: How Imperfections Could Bring Down the World’s Most Perfect Statue," journalist Sam Anderson talks about his obsession with the flaws, reproductions and potential collapse of Michelangelo’s masterpiece. [Keep reading.]

By the way, this oyster was a gift, and I forgot to mention that the peaches I posted yesterday were also a gift. I like to note here when my still life painting is inspired by someone else's generosity.

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