Success came easily and quickly. Moran went with a government exploring expedition to the West, where he wished to sketch the unknown Rockies. A poetic imagination, coupled with an eye trained to note and remember the smallest details, could not fail to being home valuable material. The artist’s enthusiasm was aroused by that bigness in the scenes before him which now brings tourists from all parts of the world. The magnificent coloring of rock and mountainside, forest and canyon and swift river, was faithfully observed, to be rendered in the most famous of Moran’s paintings. The United States government chose two of his pictures, “The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone” and “The Grand Chasm of the Colorado,” to adorn the walls of the national Capitol. The artist received for them $10,000 apiece. Moran must be considered one of our self-taught painters; for, except during his first visits to Europe, he received very little instruction. He is an American painter of American landscapes. Yet he has also made several excellent paintings of the sea. He likes best to paint the sea with mountains near at hand in the picture. He has made several prolonged stays in Europe; but is most fond of his home at East Hampton, Long Island. PREPARED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR, VOL. 1, No. 26, SERIAL No. 26 [Illustration: TWILIGHT--AUTUMN By D. W. TRYON Copyright by N. E. Montross] _AMERICAN LANDSCAPE PAINTERS_ _Dwight William Tryon_ FIVE The world stands ready to admire a painter whose trees bend beneath the gale, their tops all but whipping the torn, gray, low-driving clouds, and whose lightning and rain and frightened animals aid the dramatic impression of violent storm. Yet the world often forgets the sort of skill that can show a light wind barely swaying the straight, stark woods of March, or can bring home to everyone the chill and the melancholy of oncoming frost in an autumn evening. When trees toss we know that the wind is up. Running cattle suggest thunder. But in “Twilight--Autumn” there is nothing to tell us why we seem to hear the far-off moaning of the November wind. Tryon makes one feel the spirit of scene and season. At the age of twenty-five Dwight William Tryon first set up his studio. Before this he had been a clerk in a bookstore at Hartford, Connecticut. At seven he began studying at the École des Beaux Arts under Daubigny and De la Chevreuse. Two of his pictures were exhibited at the Paris Salon. Since then he has won prizes everywhere--a gold medal of the first class at Munich in 1891; thirteen medals at the Chicago exhibition, 1893; and many more. He is a member of the National Academy.