The Way Home

Jeanette Muriel Halpert-Ryden

Halpert-Ryden depicts a quiet day in a city - probably in the hillside neighborhood of Bernal Heights in San Francisco - a low-hanging sun suspended between buildings as people go about their errands and strolls. Her Modernist sensibility finds harmony between the rigidness of the block and the energy and movement of city life that she wants to convey.

Jean Halpert-Ryden’s graphic work often portrayed San Francisco with an affection for the awkward angularity of its place in a hilly, tumbling landscape: it pokes and knocks about, jutting upward or sideways, but always with a sense of organized chaos that holds within its concrete arms the lives of the people who care for it.