1894, Dwight William Tryon, Dawn -- Early Spring -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: In the mid-1860s James McNeill Whistler had begun to envision, create, and title his works in the abstract language of music, calling them symphonies, harmonies, nocturnes, and so forth. A perceptive critic observed in 1902 that Tryon followed Whistler's lead, distilling from nature rather than transcribing it, in landscapes such as this one: "Tryon's pictures...are almost, literally speaking, musical in their effect, not unlike the pizzicato notes on the A string of a violin.. He composes his pictures as a composer does his score. His parallelism of horizontal and vertical lines is like melodic phrasing."
1894, Dwight William Tryon, Dawn -- Early Spring -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: In the mid-1860s James McNeill Whistler had begun to envision, create, and title his works in the abstract language of music, calling them symphonies, harmonies, nocturnes, and so forth. A perceptive critic observed in 1902 that Tryon followed Whistler's lead, distilling from nature rather than transcribing it, in landscapes such as this one: "Tryon's pictures...are almost, literally speaking, musical in their effect, not unlike the pizzicato notes on the A string of a violin.. He composes his pictures as a composer does his score. His parallelism of horizontal and vertical lines is like melodic phrasing."