Tryon, Dwight William

Born August 13, 1849 in Hartford, Connecticut, in the family of Anson Tryon and Delia O. Roberts. When Dwight reached the age of four, his father was accidentally killed in a street shootout; the boy was raised by his mother on his grandfather's farm in East Hartford . His interest in art developed naturally - Tryon got a job at a large bookstore in Hartford's bookstore and read literature on paintings in the store. In his free time he began to sketch the surroundings of the city.

He sold his first job in 1870. Originally exhibited and sold his work in Hartford, in 1873 he received success at an exhibition at the National Academy of Design . His first works were similar to paintings by representatives of the Barbizon school . Probably his work was influenced by the works of George Inness and Alexander Vient . During this period of his work, he married Alice Hepzib Belden, whom he met at the store. ^[one]

In 1876, the artist decided to increase his artistic level by studying the work of other artists. Having earned the sale of his paintings from auctions, with the help of a philanthropist, he traveled to France with his wife. He entered the studio of Louis de la Chevreuse , took lessons at the School of Fine Arts . He received important advice from Charles-Francois Daubigny , Henri Joseph Arpigny and . At this time, the heyday of impressionism in France, which met Tryon.

During his stay in Europe with his wife, met with the American artist Abbot Thayer and his wife, they became friends. In 1881, Tryon returned to the United States and settled in New York , where he painted landscapes and taught. In New York, he met and made friends with artists Thomas Dewing . He became one of the first members of the Society of American Artists and continued to exhibit his paintings at the National Academy of Design. He also became a member of the American Society of Watercolorists and the National Institute of Arts and Literature (currently the American Academy of Arts and Literature ). On the advice of Gifford, Trion and his wife built a summer house in Dartmaus, Massachusetts, in 1887. He continued to spend every winter in New York, the rest of the time being in Dartmaus, where he enjoyed the aesthetics of the world and was engaged in his favorite pastime - fishing .

In the late 1880s, the artist also continued to paint landscapes, exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at the Montross Gallery in New York. Detroit 's industrialist became his patron, buying for himself the first painting of Tryon in 1889. Then he acquired a lot of the artist's works, including his best works, which he collected in his Detroit home. Freer, also becoming a major owner of James Whistler and Asian art, created the Freer Art Gallery , which is now part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington , where many of Dwight Tryon's works can be seen.

In addition to actually painting, Tryon taught at Smith College from 1886 to 1923. At the end of his life, he created the Tryon Gallery of Art . In 1908, he was awarded the Carnegie Prize for his work “The Necklace” at the Carnegie Exhibition , held at the Carnegie Museum of Art . ^[2]

Died of cancer on July 1, 1925 in Dartmaus, Massachusetts.

• Some work
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  Apple blossoms

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  Autumn: New England

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  After sunset: looking east

• Paintings by Dwight W. Tryon
• Dwight W. Tryon
• Dwight William Tryon