Kate Tryon

Kate Allen Tryon (March 18, 1865 – 1952) was a journalist, artist and lecturer.

Early life Kate Allen Tryon was born in the village of Naples, Maine, on March 18, 1865. She was the daughter of Charles A. Allen, of Portland, Maine.

Personal life In school in Portland she met James Libbey Tryon and became his wife in Massena, New York.

She died in 1952.

Legacy In 1963 her daughter Sylvia Kramer donated 35 paintings of her mother to the Richard Jefferies Museum at Coate Farmhouse; some of these paintings are now in the Swindon Museum and Art Gallery Collection.

In 1997 her granddaughter Kate Schneider donated to the Richard Jefferies Society an unpublished typed manuscript based on Tryon's visits to Swindon. It was published in 2010 as Adventures in the Vale of the White Horse "Jefferies Land": Featuring Kate Tryon's Original Paintings and Photographs from Her Visits to the Area.