1. Sarah "Sally" Tack Ryan was an American artist and sculptor best known for portrait style pieces and her association with the Garman Ryan Collection.
12 Facts About Sally Ryan
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Sally Ryan was born in New York City, the daughter of Allan Aloysius Ryan and Sarah Tack Ryan.
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Sally Ryan was the granddaughter of Thomas Fortune Ryan, a successful Irish-American entrepreneur.
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Sally Ryan's went to school in Montreal and her artistic career began in 1933, where she exhibited her first sculpture at the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in Toronto.
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Sally Ryan exhibited work at The Royal Academy of Arts in London in 1935.
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Sally Ryan was an associate of the poet Ralph Gustafson and sculptor Jacob Epstein.
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Aged twenty, Sally Ryan had a successful solo show at the Cooling Gallery which included her portrait busts of Ellen Ballon, Paul Robeson and Arturo Toscanini.
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In 1940, Sally Ryan's work was included in Philadelphia's International Sculpture Exhibition, prior to her second solo show in New York the following autumn.
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Sally Ryan used much of the inheritance she received from her grandfather to build a wide-ranging art collection, alongside her life-long friend, Kathleen Garman.
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Sally Ryan died of cancer of the throat in 1968 while staying at The Dorchester in London.
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Variously described as "aloof", "private" and androgynous in appearance, Sally Ryan was gay and lived with another women, who became the chief beneficiary of her will.
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Sally Ryan bequeathed $50,000 and her art collection to Kathleen Garman to establish the Garman-Ryan collection, now housed at The New Art Gallery Walsall.