Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American, 1851-1938)
Thomas Wilmer Dewing was born in Boston in 1851. During the early years of his career he worked as a lithographer and portrait painter but desiring to further his education, in 1876 traveled to Europe where he studied at the Academie Julian in Paris. Dewing returned to the States to work in New York and Boston, opening a studio in New York and teaching at the Art Student's League.
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Thomas Dewing married artist Maria Oakey. He spent summers in New Hampshire along with a group of fellow artists dedicated to the pursuit of beauty where he began painting the women in interiors work for which he is best known. Dewing received several honors during his lifetime, in 1888 he was elected full member of the National Academy of Design and in 1901 was awarded a gold medal at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition. Dewing usually worked from models which he called "merely suggestions". Thomas Wilmer Dewing died in 1938.Museums: Thomas Dewing may be found at Carnegie Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art or the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Thomas Wilmer Dewing Selected Paintings
- A Musician 1877- ady with a rose
- After Sunset
- Antoinette
- Before Sunrise
- Classical Figure 1 c.1898
- Classical Figure 2 c.1898
- Dance
- Elizabeth Platt Jencks, 1895
- Figure in Moonlight c.1897-1898
- Girl reading (Antoinette)
- Girl with Cello
- Girl with Lute
- Gloria
- Head of a Young Woman
- Lady in a purple Dress
- Lady in Green and Grey, 1911
- Lady listening
- Lady with a Lute, 1886
- Lilac Dress
- Madelaine, 1890
- Morning
- Portrait in a Brown Dress
- Portrait of a Lady Holding a Rose, 1912
- Portrait of Eliza Williams Stone Paine Dewing, 1869
- Portrait of Ella Emmet c.1894-1895
- Reclining Nude
- Repose 1921
- Summer
- The Blue Dress
- The Duet
- The Duet - Interlude
- The Evening Dress
- The Gossip, 1907
- The Lute
- The Music Lesson
- The Musician
- The Pink Dress, 1894
- The Recitation
- The Singer, 1924
- The Song 1891 67.3x86.4
- Woman in Black - Portrait of Maria Oakey Dewing 1887
- Young girl with lily
- Young woman with violincello c.1912
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