Anthony J. Ryder is a draftsman, painter, author and teacher. He studied with Ted Seth Jacobs at the Art Students League of New York from 1983-1989. He began teaching at the New York Academy of Art in 1985 and later taught at the ASL, Gage Academy, Water Street Atelier, BACAA, and other locations in the USA, and Ecole Albert Defois and Studio Escalier in France. He wrote and illustrated The Artist’s Complete Guide to Figure Drawing, Watson-Guptill, 2000. In 2007 he opened the Ryder Studio in Santa Fe, NM, where he offers courses in drawing and painting from life.

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