About Nick Rayder

Born in the 1940′s on the east coast, I was influenced by the sights of New York and the artists of the “Ash Can” group, known also as “The Eight”. Artists such as Henri, Sloan, Prendergast, et al, who had been re|ected by the existing “art critics”, painted the back streets of the city with its lines of laundry hanging between buildings, its children playing in back alleys inhabited by the pervasive ash (garbage) cans.

I started formal art lessons at Lycoming College, in Williamsport, PA under the friendly guidance of…