Trees on a Hilltop. Etching. Signed and numbered, 2/10 lower margin. Sight measures 7.25 in. high x 9.25 in. wide, (with frame 14 in high x 15.25 in. wide).

 American Tonalist landscape painter, Chauncey Foster Ryder, was born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1868.  In 1891, he moved to Chicago and began his artistic training at the Art Institute and at Smith's Art Academy.

After moving to Paris in 1901, Ryder enrolled at the Académie Julian, where he studied under Jean-Paul Laurens and Raphael Collin.  He showed at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1903.  During the four years that followed, he exhibited annually at the Salon.  Although Ryder maintained a studio in Paris until 1910, he returned to America in 1907 and settled in New York, where he began to show at Macbeth Galleries.

Although best known for his oil paintings, Ryder was a proficient draftsman, print-maker, and water-colorist.  He received numerous awards and prizes including a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915, the National Academy of Design prize in 1934, and a gold medal at the Paris International Exhibition in 1937. He was named full academician of the National Academy of Design in 1920. 

His works are represented in many important private and public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

Condition: In good condition with some minor paper rippling along upper edge. Not examined out of frame.