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His deceptively simple compositions, focused on a limited number of themes (brooding landscapes, the sea, literary subjects), were often successively reworked to achieve the rich but planar tonalist effects of the Barbizon and Symbolist painters he admired. The Story of the Cross is among the artist’s most impressive paintings, incorporating the simultaneously awkward yet gentle and expressive forms for which he is known, and to which this particular subject is especially well suited. One of several works Ryder produced on a Christian theme, the painting is distinct in that it is unrelated to a specific biblical story, although the composition, depicting a shepherd relating the story of the crucifixion to a young child and his mother, parallels the iconography of the flight into Egypt. Its generalized forms and exceptional lambent color lend it, appropriately, something of the aura of a medieval icon. 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One of several works Ryder produced on a Christian theme, the painting is unrelated to any specific biblical story, although the composition, depicting a shepherd describing Christ’s Crucifixion to a mother and child, parallels the iconography of the Holy Family’s Flight into Egypt. Its generalized forms and lambent color lend the painting the aura of a medieval icon.\n","remarks":"AMER2_23-27_WLA Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Helen Corbett Ladd (1896-1984), Portland (OR), by 1907; purchased by C.E.S. Wood (1852-1944), Portland (OR), 1918; [R.C. & N. M. Vose, Boston 1920, unsold]; inherited by Sara (Bard Field) Woods (1882-1974), ca. January 22, 1944. [Maynard Walker Galleries, New York, by March 17, 1956]; purchased from the above by Alastair B. 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