The sun., 1901-12-29
BRIEF APPLICATIONS OF SOME
AMERICAN PAINTERS.
XII. DWIGHT w. Tryon.

XI. Dwight W. Tryon'
| II we wished TO introduce a foreigner
| TO what Is most distinctively American
| In our painting. We should show him.
| think, the work Of some of our marine
I, and landscape painters. He would be
least likely In these to detect the influence
OF Europe. The point of view he would
recognize. no doubt as the one common
to all nature students since the Dutchmen
Of the seventeenth century; but In regard
TO the technique he could not attribute
its character to the influence Of this or
the other master abroad, for our landscape
painters, like most other true students OF
nature, have found, each for himself, their
| own necessary and inevitable language
| Of expression. Necessary because IL origi-
mated in their own peculiar need, and IN
evitable because II grew out OF the par
ticular character OF the portion OF nature
that they studied. And in most cases 1t
| Is some phase of the American landscape
that has engaged the American painter,
which accounts in no slight degree for the
individuality of his work
For do we pay enough heed TO the es-
sential differences that nature presents
In different localities' At the moment
am not thinking Of the variations In con-
| struction, forms and confguration, as,
for example, between the aspects Of noun
tains and of simple pastoral regions; nor.
| even, of the separateness of impress set
upon the landscape by man in the charac-
ter Of his buildings or of his farming oc-
cupations; but Of that more subtle differ
ence produced by varying kinds Of atmos-
phere. The great landscape painters. we
may have noticed, all belong TO northern
countries, who have lived, comparatively
speaking, within the same degrees OF lati-
tude; and yet the landscapes Of Holland,
France, Scotland, England, Norway and
America can never be mistaken for one
another. Apart from local conditions OF
mans handiwork, each varies in the local
quality Of its atmosphere; its degree OF
clarity or humidity, Of briskness or caress-
ingness.
In country, vast AZ ours, there must
needs he diversity In different parts, 80
there cannot be any one character OF land
scape distinctively American: but, in their
faithful rendering Of the local charac-
ter, oil may be dhtinguishable from those
of other countries. And this expression on
the countenance Of nature Is not unlike
that Oh the face Of man or woman; tho
he may render it with a completeness OF
sympathy and understanding, products of
alert sensibity and interested acquain
tanccship Ii il the evidence of these
qualities that gives enduring charm to
Tryon's landscapes.
No one who knows his work will need
10 be told that he is II New Highlander
His Landscapes show an intimacy of knowl-
1 fa..VNa
sympathy with its particular phases OF
expression, that could only result from the
painter having grown up in that part; tho
BOYS associations gradually maturing INTO
the mans convictions. Ills home was III
Hartford, Conn, whrr" lie was born IN
ls4g He entered upon life az statlohers
assistant and pursued the occupation until
he had accumulated -uthclent means 10
visit pari-. all the while spending hi leisure
time IN studying from nature and IN dis
covering for himself bow 10 represent
hi, ideas In paint. There l. evidence IN this
Of sanity as We'll az 'arn"stn"sS, "i m"
poisc Of character, qualities later 10 appear
In his landscapes.
Above all. tnero il the perfectly natural
process Of a painters evolution; | mean,
the antecpdeut love of nature, the clear
appr.heusion Of the kind of nature that
he aimed % paint, the love OF II and the
know ledge prcC, ding the final acquisition
Of technique, meanwhile, the gradual up
building uf personal character 10y the DIS
cipuno ui pu~tPouiug hi ideals. ~, when
he reached Paris, IL was not a. "a raw, en-
thusia-tIc student who's" subsequent career
spun suspended upon a mere cubweb Of
his fancy lie had lnarrird and took il-
wife with him, "siahl I. ing hltle HON"
aud having clear plans IN view. being, ~
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