Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
October Twilight
Image View:
Overall view with frame
Creator:
Dwight William Tryon (American painter, 1849-1925)
Location:
repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 2013.275
Location Note:
5600 Mayflower Hill; Lunder Collection
GPS:
44.565-69.660833
Date:
1915 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
45.72 cm (height) x 70.49 cm (width)
Subjects:
landscape; American Impressionism
Description:
Dwight Tryon became enamored with painting the character of one region: the countryside around his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. In 1900 a critic wrote of the difficulty of describing Tryon’s paintings: “We should have to coin our adjectives as he mixes his colors . . . for his golden-rod is not actually golden, his grass, not actually green.” Tryon was never fazed by such criticism, believing his works to be deeply personal transcriptions of nature that were difficult for most viewers to appreciate. (Source: Colby Museum of Art [website]; http://www.colby.edu /museum/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-TRYOND-CA-OT-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

October Twilight