Dwight William Tryon

Dwight William Tryon ( born August 13, 1849 in Hartford ( Connecticut ); † July 1, 1925 in South Dartmouth ) was an American landscape painter in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work was influenced by James McNeill Whistler, and he is best known for his landscapes and seascapes that are painted in tonalistischen style.

Life

Youth

Tryon's father died in a firearms accident before he was 4 years old and he was raised by his mother on the farm of his grandfather in East Hartford. His interest in art developed naturally. As a young man Tryon worked in a well-known Hartford bookstore and studied art instruction books from the display. In his spare time, he sketched the surrounding countryside.

In 1870, he sold his first painting. After he had exhibited and sold at the local level, he successfully from 1873 at the National Academy of Design. In his artistic conviction strengthened, Tryon married, quit his job at the bookstore and became a full -time artist. Some of his first works from this period are seascapes and harbor views in luministischer Art Soon after, however, he turned to the Barbizon school to which was popular at that time among American artists. He may have been influenced by George Inness and Alexander Helwig Wyant.

Training

1876 ​​Tryon decided his skills through a formal study of art to improve it. He auctioned all his paintings and, with the help of a benefactor, traveled with his wife to France. He worked in the studio of Jacquesson de la Chevreuse and took classes at the École des Beaux -Arts. He also erhielta teachings of Charles -François Daubigny, Henri Harpignies and Jean Baptiste -Antoine Guillemet. Impressionism flourished in France Tryon's, but he was not affected by the new style, but the Barbizon school remained faithful.

Tryon traveled and painted Europe with his wife and met Abbott Handerson Thayer and his wife, with whom he became friends. In 1881 he returned to the United States, where he painted landscapes and landscape painting taught. In New York, he became friends with the artists Robert Swain Gifford and Thomas Dewing. He was an early member of the Society of American Artists and drove it continued painting in the National Academy of Design issue. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society and the National Institute of Arts and Letters (now the American Academy of Arts and Letters ).

More creative

On the advice of Gifford built Tryon and his wife in 1887 a summer house in South Dartmouth. Although he spent the winter in New York City was South Dartmouth his home for the rest of his life. The coastal region came to meet his aesthetic sensibilities and allowed him his hobby of fish to pursue.

In the late 1880s Tryon began painting landscapes in a style that would become his mature and iconic style. Working mostly in oil contained his paintings typically a group or interrupted row of trees in the middle distance, often colored autumn, the bright sky sharing, and a foreground of swamp or pasture. He also drove away seascapes in his mature career to paint, often with pastels to represent water, sky and beach in different weather and light. He exhibited nationally, but preferred the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Montross Gallery in New York.

A Detroit industrialist Charles Lang Freer, bought in 1889 only a painting by Tryon and then became his most important patron. Freer bought dozens of Tryon's paintings, including many of his best works, and worked closely with him for the interior of his Detroit home. Freer, a major collector of Asian art and works of James McNeill Whistler, proceeded to build the Freer Gallery of Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, where today many works will be exhibited from Tryon.

In addition to his painting, Tryon taught from 1886 to 1923 at Smith College part-time. Late in his career, he built the Tryon Gallery of Art, he died of cancer.