CHARLES A. RYSKAMP

Charles A. Ryskamp was a remarkable person. His instincts were unfailingly generous. He had an extraordinary gift for friendship. He had taste, intellect, and a sensibility attuned to what was best in art, in literature, in institutions, and in the experience of life itself. Nothing could have been more fitting or triumphant, and nothing could have given Ryskamp greater pleasure than this last bold undertaking: studying and conversing with students; exercising his impeccable connoisseurship; deriving deep satisfaction from the process of installing the drawings; and providing the preface for the masterful catalogue -- written by Matthew Hargraves -- that captured so large a part of Ryskamp's life and work in brilliant tangible form.