Skip to main content
Tightly written letters and numbers spelling "Ryman 95".
Ryman
Tightly written letters and numbers spelling "Ryman 95".
Tightly written letters and numbers spelling "Ryman 95".
Ryman, Robert Ryman, 1995, silkscreen on lnomayi Japanese paper with powered graphite in a clear lacquer base, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, © 2023 Robert Ryman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Ryman

Artist (American, 1930 - 2019)
Date1995
MediumScreenprint on lnomayi Japanese paper with powered graphite in a clear lacquer base
DimensionsImage: 16 1/8 × 16 1/4 inches (41 × 41.3 cm)
Sheet: 18 × 18 inches (45.7 × 45.7 cm)
Framed: 21 1/8 × 21 1/8 × 1 1/2 inches (53.7 × 53.7 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineKirk Varnedoe Collection, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, Gift of Robert Ryman.
Object number2006.22
On View
Not on view
Copyright© 2023 Robert Ryman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextRobert Ryman was born in Nashville, Tennessee and attended Tennessee Polytechnic Institute. After one year of study there, he transferred to George Peabody College for Teachers, also in Nashville, changing his course of study to music. He moved to New York in 1952 to study jazz, and began painting after taking a part-time job as a guard at the Museum of Modern Art. By 1961, Ryman was exhibiting his work regularly and had become a full-time artist. The greatest concerns in Ryman’s art are texture, surface, and paint application. To place greater emphasis on these issues, he most often removes color and subject matter from his work entirely, creating square, completely monochromatic white paintings. Ryman, the silkscreen of 1995 in the Varnedoe Collection, possesses the artist’s typical use of a square surface. The only design is the artist’s last name in all capital letters, followed by the number “95,” the year in which the print was created. The long, stretched letters and numbers occupy nearly the entire sheet, confined by the limitations of the paper’s square surface. Ryman’s concern with texture and surface are reflected in his selection of a handmade, finely textured Japanese paper for the printing of this silkscreen print.
A graphic image featuring a white ring enclosing a blue background littered with uniform white …
Robert Indiana
1975
Three simple words, “Black is Beautiful,” are vibrantly repeated against a backdrop of green an…
David K. DeLong
c. 1966
Three simple words, “Black is Beautiful,” are vibrantly repeated against a backdrop of bright g…
David K. DeLong
c. 1966
The front cover features a solid red fabric spine and colorful alternating bunting.
Kara Walker
2013
Digitally Mastered Front
Craig Drennen
2007
A colorful print depicting an oversized ant in front of a linear village.
Rev. Howard Finster
1991
A primarily black and white print of a contorted female face next to a table with fruit and a p…
Roy Lichtenstein
1973
A print of block color figures on a blue background with the words above, "BIG DADDY PAPER DOLL…
May Stevens
1971
A print of the face and upheld torch arm of the Statue of Liberty in New York.
Roy Lichtenstein
1982