TitleDwight W. Tryon
Artist
Benoni Irwin
(1840 - 1896)
Date1890
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 21 × 17 in.
Framed: 23 1/2 × 19 1/2 × 3/4 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "D.W. Tryon/by/B. Irwin"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, March 15, 1891
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number650-P
Label TextWhen exhibited, Irwin's portrait of Tryon received mixed reviews. While the critic for The Magazine of Art gave it a favorable mention, the review in The Studio grouped it with Richard Creifelds's portrait of Carleton Wiggins (302-P) as "without special artistic value: only `heads' and nothing more; and heads such as are plenty as blackberries all the world over."
