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Dwight William Tryon

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Dwight William Tryon (1849 - 1925) was active/lived in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut.  Dwight Tryon is known for Tonalist landscape, marine, nocturne, educator.

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 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 scenes of New England, often along the Connecticut River, while working at a subsequent job in a book   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4897 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Dwight William Tryon

   Publications  Book References:  97
Magazine References:  11

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11 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Dwight William Tryon
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Pastel Journal The Best Pastel Collections December 2006 Carsten, Robert K. Yes
American Art Review American Impressionism: Variations on a Theme April 2006 Wolfe, M. Melissa Yes
American Art Review Envisioning New England December 2004 Grinnell & Hunter Yes
American Art Review American Paintings from the Akron A October 2004 Wat, Kathryn A Yes
American Artist Nuts & Bolts June 2004 Editors, American Artist Yes
American Art Review Smith College Museum of Art June 2004 Muehlig, Linda Yes
American Art Review Painting & Sculpture from Smith April 2002 Muehlig, Linda Yes
The Magazine Antiques Living with Antiques November 2001 Quick, Michael No
American Art Review East Meets West: American Impressio April 1997 Coles, William Yes
American Art Review The Light Beyond November 1996 Grinnell, Nancy W Yes
American Art Review A Legacy of Beauty June 1995 Kendall-Hess, Wendy Yes
97 Book References for Dwight William Tryon
Year Author Title Pages Color
2010 Cleveland, David Adams A History of American Tonalism 592 Yes
2010 Editor Tonalism: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, George Inness, Leon Dabo, Theodore Stamos, Xavier Martinez, Jack Cassinetto, Dwight William Tryon 78 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Sessions, Ralph (Intro); Nicolai Cikovsky, Ellen Denker, et all The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism (Spanierman Galleries, LLC.)
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 Yes
2004 Cleveland, David Adams Intimate Landscapes: Charles Warren Eaton and the Tonalist Movement in American Art, 1880-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 114 Yes
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2002 Beal, Graham American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
2002 Spanierman Gallery (Editor) The Spirit of America: American Art from 1829 to 1970
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1999 Editor, Smith College Museum Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum 307 No
1999 Fabing, Suzannah (Curator) Dwight William Tryon: 1849-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 20 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 The Dayton Art Institute American Art From the Dicke Collection 264 Yes
1997 Vose Galleries Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Art and Collecting in America, Part Two 35 Yes
1996 Burns, Sarah Inventing the Modern Artist Art and Culture in Gilded Age America 380 No
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1993 Carr, Carolyn K Revisiting the White City American Art at the 1893 World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 408 Yes
1993 Lawton, Thomas; Linda Merrill Freer: A Legacy of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 Yes
1992 Lublin, Mary American Selections 1850-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 163 Yes
1992 Strazdes, Diana American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art 511 Yes
1991 Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll. Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam 271 Yes
1991 Weaver, Jane Calhoun (editor) Sadakichi Hartmann Critical Modernist, Collected Art Writings 410 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons 430 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Halsby, Julian Venice/The Artist's Vision Guide to British and American Painters 223 Yes
1990 Merrill, Linda An Ideal Country Paintings By Dwight William Tryon (Freer Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Gerdts, Abigail Booth An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD
(Exhibition catalog)		 208 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Marling, Karal Ann Looking Back A Perspective on the 1913 Inaugural Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 55 Yes
1987 Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1986 Carr, Carolyn K The Edwin C Shaw Collection of American Impressionist & Tonalist Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Kopitske, Christine (Editor) American Reflections: Paintings 1830-1940 Pomona and Scripps Colleges, Claremont, California
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1983 Detroit Institute of the Arts The Quest for Unity American Art between World's Fairs 1876-1893
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 Yes
1982 Czestochowski, Joseph S The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings 184 Yes
1982 Gerdts, William H (others) Tonalism An American Experience
(Exhibition catalog)		 94 Yes
1982 Owens, Gwendolyn Golden Day / Silver Night Perceptions of Nature in American Art 1850-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 Yes
1982 Sellin, David / J K Ballinger Americans in Brittany and Normand 1868-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 229 Yes
1982 University of Missouri Illustrated Museum Handbook Guide/Museum Art & Archaeology 135 Yes
1981 San Diego Museum of Art Catalogue of American Painting 240 Yes
1980 Burke, Doreen Bolger American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 3, Artists Born Between1846-64 479 No
1980 Novak, Barbara and Annette Blaugrund Next to Nature: Landscape Paintings from the National Academy of Design 213 Yes
1980 Spencer, Harold; Susan Larkin, Jeffrey Andersen (Essays) Connecticut and American Impressionism (William Benton Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 184 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Springfield Library & Museum Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections 216 Yes
1979 Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor) The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings 227 Yes
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1977 Hills, Patricia Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 194 Yes
1977 Rhode Island School of Design American Painting from the Museum's Collection c1800-1930 241 No
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1976 Wadsworth Atheneum The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes 96 Yes
1975 Bermingham, Peter American Art in the Barbizon Mood
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1974 Boyle, Richard American Impressionism 238 Yes
1973 Carnegie Institute Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art 196 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1972 Corn, Wanda M The Color of Mood American Tonalism 1880-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Forster, Peggy; Julie Snow Birkhimer; Mae Huntington Permanent Collection Catalog Springville Museum of Art 75 Yes
1972 Hoopes, Donelson F The American Impressionists 160 Yes
1971 Lowe Art Museum French Impressionists Influence American Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1970 Caffin, Charles H American Masters of Painting 195 No
1970 Cohen, Mildred Tonalism: An American Interpretation of Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1970 Weinhardt, Carl J Jr (editor) Indianapolis Museum of Art Catalogue of American Paintings 166 No
1969 Brockton Art Center Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums 48 No
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1966 Dodd, Loring Holmes With An Eye on the Gallery American Painters in Oil 251 No
1965 Goldman, Eric F.; Tracy Atkinson The Beauty of America in Great American Art (Country Beautiful Foundation) 162 Yes
1965 University of New Mexico Impressionism in America An Exhibition...U of New Mexico Art Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1937 Caffin, Charles H The Story of American Painting The Evolution of Painting in America 396 No
1936 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Main Currents in the Development of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1927 Isham, Samuel The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz) 608 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1921 Bryant, Lorinda Munson American Pictures & their Painters 307 No
1917 Guthrie, Anna Lorraine American Art A Study Outline 63 No
1916 The Nebraska Art Association: Catalogue 22nd Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 15 No
1909 Rathbun, Richard The National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Inst, Bulletin 70 140 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 281 No
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