The Sea: Evening

Object Details

• Artist

  Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925)

• Label

  Tryon painted many seascapes but none as monumentally austere as The Sea: Evening. Charles Lang Freer, his principal patron, likened its directness of expression to a Chinese ink painting--Freer's highest form of praise. Like Whistler, Tryon saw himself as part of an aesthetic elite, and he delighted in this unconscious evidence of his own "kinship with former great minds."

• Provenance

  From 1907 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from the artist, Dwight William Tryon in 1907 [1]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See American Paintings Other than by Whistler, A, pg. 2, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. According to Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record, this painting was purchased from D.W. Tryon in August 1907.

  [2] 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.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Seascapes: Tryon & Sugimoto (July 18, 2008 to January 25, 2009)

  Art for Art's Sake (July 23, 1997 to January 24, 2008)

  American Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels (December 11, 1976 to March 24, 1977)

  American Paintings by Dewing, Sargeant, Homer, Tryon, Brush, Melchers and Whistler (March 23, 1925 to May 5, 1933)

  A Selection of Art Objects from the Freer Collection Exhibited in the New Building of the National Museum (April 15 to June 15, 1912)

  Exhibition of Paintings by T.W. Dewing, A.H. Thayer, D.W. Tryon, J.A.McNeill Whistler (February 10 to 26, 1910)

  Untitled Exhibition of Paintings by T.W. Dewing and D.W. Tryon (February 18 to February 29, 1908)

  Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists: Second Exhibition (December 8, 1908 to January 17, 1909)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925) (C.L. Freer source)

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• Origin

  United States

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1900s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Tryon, Dwight William

• Place

  United States

• Topic

  Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Evening, American Art, Seascape, Ocean

• Culture

  Americans

• Object Type

  Paintings