Moonlight
date: label: Date
content: 1887
name: label: Artist
content: Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925)
notes: label: Description
content: A yellow moonrise over farm-buildings; a haystack in the foreground.
label: Signatures
content: Signed and dated, lower right: D.W. Tryon 1887
label: Provenance
content: To 1891
label: Provenance
content: George Ingraham Seney (1826-1893), New York to 1891 [1]
label: Provenance
content: From 1891 to 1919
label: Provenance
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the sale of the George I. Seney Collection, American Art Association, New York, NY, February 17, 1891, no. 115 [2]
label: Provenance
content: From 1920
label: Provenance
content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
label: Provenance
content: Notes:
label: Provenance
content: [1] See Voucher for February 17, 1891, in Voucher File, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, Curatorial Remark 6, Linda Merrill, May 1989, in the object record.
label: Provenance
content: [2] See note 1.
label: Provenance
content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
label: Collection
content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection
label: Exhibition History
content: Shifting Boundaries: Perspectives on American Landscapes (July 13, 2024 to July 26, 2026)
label: Exhibition History
content: American Paintings, Dwight W. Tryon (May 2, 1923 to March 23, 1925)
label: Exhibition History
content: Panama-Pacific International Exposition (February 20 to December 4, 1915)
label: Exhibition History
content: Untitled Exhibition of Paintings by D.W. Tryon, 1903 (March 1903)
label: Exhibition History
content: Exhibition of Paintings by D.W. Tryon (February 1 to 22, 1900)
label: Exhibition History
content: Mr. George I. Seney's Important Collection of Modern Paintings (1891)
label: Exhibition History
content: 1887 American Art Association (1887)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: George Ingraham Seney (1826-1893) (C.L. Freer source)
label: Previous custodian or owner
content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
place: label: Origin
content: United States
topic: label: Topic
content: landscape
label: Topic
content: moon
label: Topic
content: night
label: Topic
content: United States
label: Topic
content: American Art
label: Topic
content: nocturne
label: Topic
content: Charles Lang Freer collection
setName: label: On View
content: West Building (Freer Gallery of Art), Gallery 10: Shifting Boundaries: Perspectives on American Landscapes
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content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: F1891.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Painting
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil on canvas mounted on wood panel
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (overall): 49.8 x 73.3 cm (19 5/8 x 28 7/8 in)