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1849 Hartford, Connecticut - 1925 South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Known for: Tonalist landscape, marine, nocturne, educator.
One of America's first Tonalist* painters and much influenced by the Barbizon School* of painting in France, Dwight Tryon was also a long-time art professor at Smith College in Northhampton,... Read full biography
One of America's first Tonalist* painters and much influenced by the Barbizon School* of painting in France, Dwight Tryon was also a long-time art professor at Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts, 1885 to 1924. His characteristic canvases were muted, serene landscapes and seascapes that... Read full biography
One of America's first Tonalist* painters and much influenced by the Barbizon School* of painting in France, Dwight Tryon was also a long-time art professor at Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts, 1885 to 1924. His characteristic canvases were muted, serene landscapes and seascapes that were popular during his lifetime but faded in public appreciation after he died. He applied his own techniques of infused light and atmospheric* effects. His work has been described as relaxing to the... Read full biography
One of America's first Tonalist* painters and much influenced by the Barbizon School* of painting in France, Dwight Tryon was also a long-time art professor at Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts, 1885 to 1924. His characteristic canvases were muted, serene landscapes and seascapes that were popular during his lifetime but faded in public appreciation after he died. He applied his own techniques of infused light and atmospheric* effects. His work has been described as relaxing to the eye and lacking the urgent vigor of many of his Impressionist contemporaries. Tryon was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in East Hartford. He showed early art talent but remained initially a self-taught artist. His formal education ended at... Read full biography
One of America's first Tonalist* painters and much influenced by the Barbizon School* of painting in France, Dwight Tryon was also a long-time art professor at Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts, 1885 to 1924. His characteristic canvases were muted, serene landscapes and seascapes that were popular during his lifetime but faded in public appreciation after he died. He applied his own techniques of infused light and atmospheric* effects. His work has been described as relaxing to the eye and lacking the urgent vigor of many of his Impressionist contemporaries. Tryon was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in East Hartford. He showed early art talent but remained initially a self-taught artist. His formal education ended at age fourteen when he began working in a firearms factory to help support his widowed mother. e began painting sc... Read full biography
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Keywords (57)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
- •Tonalist, Tonalism
Art Subject
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Whaling Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Barbizon, France
- •Boston Before 1900
- •Europe
- •Old Lyme, Connecticut
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Venice, Italy
- •White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
- •Brooklyn Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •Society of American Artists, New York
Art School
- •Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Julius Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Marine Before 1900
- •Miniature Specialty
- •Nocturne Specialty
Artist Colony
- •Ogunquit Artist Colony, Maine
- •Old Lyme Artist Colony
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •Lotos Club
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
