Albert Pinkham Ryder: isolato of the brush.

The article features American painter Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847-1917) and his accomplishments. Also cited are the claim by Ryder that an artist should live to paint and not paint to live, the comment of Gary Alan Fine on Masters in Fine Arts program in his 2018 book "Talking Art: The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education," and the book about Ryder titled "A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art" by Elizabeth Broun and others.