Hercules Segers, Eliot Greene, Anne Ryan

I saw an amazing exhibit at the Met Museum of works by the early 17th century Dutch  artist Hercules Segers. Very little is known about him, and not many of his works survive, but most of them were at the Met.   What is interesting about Segers is primarily his print making.   He was an inveterate experimenter, and devised all kinds of ways of making prints, often times from the same plate.  He was even using sugar at a certain point.  (I was reminded of the Degas show we saw last year; Degas was also experimenting.   The prints are mostly landscapes, with a fascinating variety of colors and textures.
Here are some of my favorites:

Could he have seen any Japanese or Chinese art?

Speaking of landscapes, I also saw a show of paintings by Elliott Green at a Lower East Side gallery.  Greene works with paint and landscape ideas; the paintings are of mostly mountain landscapes, but also work with different ways of representing these landscapes with paint.  I liked them.

I also saw a great show of the work of Anne Ryan, a painter who was hanging out with the abstract expressionist crowd in the late 1940's.   She had a moment of revelation when she saw her first show of Schwitters collages, and spent the last six years of her life (1948-1954) making collages.   They are small, intimate works, carefully detailed with a wide variety of material and textures.   Photographs give you some idea of the visual appearance of the works, but cannot convey the textures of the works.