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Chauncey Foster Ryder
Lyme Art Colony
American, (February 29, 1868–May 18, 1949) In Lyme: Summers, 1910-1911
Chauncey F. Ryder was born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1868. Shortly after, his family moved to New Haven (CT) and then Chicago (IL). In 1891 he married Mary Doyle Keith and began his training at the Art Institute of Chicago. He later attended Smith's Art Academy in Chicago and was eventually hired as an instructor. In 1901 Ryder and his wife sold all of their possession to finance a trip to Paris, where Ryder enrolled at the Academie Julien under Jean-Paul Laurens and Raphael Collins. In 1903 his work was accepted at the Paris Salon.

In 1907 Ryder returned to New York and met infuential NY art dealer, William Macbeth, who soon became his agent. Ryder periodically returned to Connecticut to work with Lyme Art Colony artists. He exhibited with the group in 1910 and 1911. Although only in Lyme a few seasons, he was asked to paint one of the panels in the Griswold house dining room.

Ryder toured New England frequently and especially enjoyed time on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he summered with his wife from 1920 to 1927. He purchased a home in WIlton, New Hampshire which is where he spent the winter months.

Ryder is known for his exceptional skills as a painter of oils and watercolors, but he also established a reputation as an etcher and lithographer. His work was exhibited nationally and he received amny awards. He was a member of the National Academy of Design, the Salmagundi Club, the New York Water Color Club, the American Water Color Society, and the Chicago Society of Etchers.