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M S (Mike) Ryan has been a painter for 40 plus years. Trained in the late 60s and early 70s as an abstract painter, he has concentrated in the last 20 years on colorist expressionism, featuringboth landscape and figurative subject matter. He studied under Morris Lewis, Byron Burford, Joseph Patrick, and Michael Tyzack at the University of Iowa, as well as, at Old Dominion University and Drake University. A midwesterner, he has chosen to paint the upper Mississippi River Valley that is his home. Recently, he has added the Rocky Mountians to his list of subjects. Ryan produces work in oils, acrylic, and pastel.
Ryan is represented by a number of galleries, including Catiri 's Art Oasis, Amana Colonies, Artisans' Gallery, Iowa City, and Wiederspan Gallery in Cedar Rapids. Ryan is represented in both corporate and private collections in the midwest and west.
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