Dwight W. Tryon (1849-1925)
- Dwight W. Tryon (1849-1925)
- Sept Morn, 1908
- Oil on panel
- 13 x 19 inches
- Signed and dated 1908, lower right
One of America’s finest landscape painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Dwight Tryon initiated his career in his native Hartford, Connecticut during the late 1860’s, depicting regional scenery while working as a clerk for Brown & Gross, a bookstore. In 1871, he met the writer Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), a frequent customer at the store, to whom he confesses his desire to become a full-time artist. Although Clemens cautioned him that he “would probably starve to death in a garret,”Tryon ignored his warning and opened a studio in Hartford two years later.1 As well as teaching art privately, he spent his summers painting landscapes in Maine, New Hampshire and elsewhere in New England, going on to sell his work to patrons in both Connecticut and New York.
