Dwight William Tryon was one of the foremost American landscape painters of his generation. His primary artistic influences were the French artist J. B. C. Corot and the American painter James A. McNeill Whistler, and his landscapes and seascapes feature soft, harmonious colors in well-ordered and balanced compositions. Painters like Tryon became known as tonalists because of their works' calm settings and the peaceful feelings they depict and inspire.