DWIGHT WILLIAM TRYON "Moonlight Over the Sea"

Item's Description

American (1849-1925)

oil on panel, 18 x 29, signed lower left, titled on the reverse.

Provenance: Montross Gallery, New York; Private collection, Detroit, Michigan.

In 1876, Dwight Tryon and his wife Alice went to France to study art and attend lectures at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. The couple traveled throughout France, Holland and Italy and spent a summer at the village of Barbizon studying with the French Barbizon painter Charles-Francois Daubigny.

In 1881, Tryon exhibited at the Paris Salon, and that year returned to New York City where he opened a studio on 57 th Street. Almost immediately, he earned the life-long patronage of Charles Lang Freer, art collector and railway-industrial capitalist, for whom Tryon did many paintings, including a series of seasonal landscapes for Freer’s Detroit home. As a result, a large portion of Tryon’s work is in the Freer Gallery of Washington, D.C., along with paintings by Freer’s two other favorite artists, James McNeil Whistler and Thomas Wilmer Dewing. Another patron of Tryon was Thomas B.
Clarke, the first collector in America to favor American artists over European artists.

Canvas Not applicable

Condition: Excellent/Very Good

Inpaint: None

Frame: Period

Comment a few minor scratches; a few areas of minor separation; scattered brush hairs