Impressionism to Go!

The Munson- Williams- Proctor Institute hosts the traveling exhibit American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum from November 18 through February 4, 2001.

Visit the exhibit in Utica, New York, or on our web site to view today's featured artwork, November.

Dwight Tryon particularly enjoyed painting in the autumn when he could capture "the wonderful anatomy of the trees." Painted during his long tenure as a professor of art at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, this landscape probably represents a nearby scene in western Massachusetts.

Source: Joann Moser. American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999).

Pictured: Dwight W. Tryon, 1849–1925, November, 1904–5, oil on wood, 20 x 30 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans.