Sunrise: May
Image ID: ART082
A pastel painting of sunrise breaking behind trees. Oil pastel on wood panel, l.r. signed and dated 1911.
Hartford-born acclaimed artist, Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925), studied and painted in France and Italy for five years, receiving numerous awards for his work. Returning to New York in 1881, he based his studio there before coming to Northampton to join the Smith College Faculty as Professor of Art. At Smith, he taught, painted, and advised President Seelye on what to buy to establish a college art museum. His teaching career spanned the years 1885 to 1923.
During that time, Tryon also developed a close friednshiop with museum-founder Charles Freer of Detroit, whose magnificent home he decorated. Freer considered James McNeill Whistler, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, and Tryon as the great masters of American contemporary painters, and many of Tryon's paintings are part of the permanent collection of the Freer Gallery in Washington D.C.
At the time of his death in 1925, D.W. Tryon left a generous endowment to Smith ; his name is commemorated today at the Tryon Hall of the Smith College Museum of Art.
Hartford-born acclaimed artist, Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925), studied and painted in France and Italy for five years, receiving numerous awards for his work. Returning to New York in 1881, he based his studio there before coming to Northampton to join the Smith College Faculty as Professor of Art. At Smith, he taught, painted, and advised President Seelye on what to buy to establish a college art museum. His teaching career spanned the years 1885 to 1923.
During that time, Tryon also developed a close friednshiop with museum-founder Charles Freer of Detroit, whose magnificent home he decorated. Freer considered James McNeill Whistler, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, and Tryon as the great masters of American contemporary painters, and many of Tryon's paintings are part of the permanent collection of the Freer Gallery in Washington D.C.
At the time of his death in 1925, D.W. Tryon left a generous endowment to Smith ; his name is commemorated today at the Tryon Hall of the Smith College Museum of Art.
Image Details
| Dublin Core | |
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| Title |
Sunrise: May
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| Subject |
Landscape painting
Pastels (Visual works)
Sunrises & sunsets
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| Description |
A pastel painting of sunrise breaking behind trees. Oil pastel on wood panel, l.r. signed and dated 1911.
Hartford-born acclaimed artist, Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925), studied and painted in France and Italy for five years, receiving numerous awards for his work. Returning to New York in 1881, he based his studio there before coming to Northampton to join the Smith College Faculty as Professor of Art. At Smith, he taught, painted, and advised President Seelye on what to buy to establish a college art museum. His teaching career spanned the years 1885 to 1923. During that time, Tryon also developed a close friednshiop with museum-founder Charles Freer of Detroit, whose magnificent home he decorated. Freer considered James McNeill Whistler, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, and Tryon as the great masters of American contemporary painters, and many of Tryon's paintings are part of the permanent collection of the Freer Gallery in Washington D.C. At the time of his death in 1925, D.W. Tryon left a generous endowment to Smith ; his name is commemorated today at the Tryon Hall of the Smith College Museum of Art. |
| Creator |
Dwight William Tryon
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| Date |
1911.
Purchased by the trustees of Forbes Library in March, 1912, for $1000. |
| Format |
Oil pastels on wood panel
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| Identifier |
ART082
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| Coverage |
Arts and Music main
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| Physical Dimensions |
20" x 30"
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Citation
Dwight William Tryon, “Sunrise: May,” Forbes Library Images from the Archives (Legacy site: Pre-2022), accessed December 21, 2024, https://images.forbeslibrary.org/items/show/822.