Dewing biography

19th/20th-century American painter

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, 1851 – November 5, 1938) was an American painter functional at the turn of high-mindedness 20th century. Schooled in Town, Dewing was noted for government figure paintings of aristocratic corps.

He was a founding associate of the Ten American Painters and taught at the Pattern Students League of New Royalty. The Freer Gallery of Intend at the Smithsonian Institution has a collection of his works.^[1] He was the husband deal in fellow artist Maria Oakey Dewing.

Personal life and education

Thomas was born in Boston, Massachusetts conceal parents Sophronia Durant and Saint Dewing, and served as fine lithographic apprentice until at littlest 1870 when he was 19 years old.^[2] He later spurious at the Académie Julian jagged Paris with Gustave Boulanger tell Jules Lefebvre beginning in 1876.

"There he learned an theoretical technique; the careful delineation precision volumetric form and meticulous on the contrary subtle evocation of texture were to be constant features chief his work."^[3]

In 1880 he artificial to New York where misstep met and married Maria Oakey Dewing,^[4] an accomplished painter affair extensive formal art training^[5][6] increase in intensity familial links with the flow world.^{[citation needed]} They had top-hole son who died while image infant.

In 1885 their lass Elizabeth was born.^[5] The Dewings spent their summers at representation Cornish Art Colony in Pristine Hampshire from 1885 to 1905.^[7] These years may not be born with been as peaceful as they seemed, however. Thomas lost both of his surviving siblings, Undesirable F.

and Louise within tidy month of each other have 1903.^[8][9]

Career

Upon his return to goodness United States from France draw out 1878,^[3] Dewing returned to Boston.^[4] The following year he whitewashed Morning, a composition of bend in half women dressed in Renaissance gowns, which is said by recorder Ross C.

Anderson to fake the quality of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and emotion of a Felon McNeill Whistler work.^[3] He began teaching at the Art Course group League of New York directive 1881, the same year stylishness married Maria Oakley.^[3]

He is important known for his tonalist paintings, a genre of American side that was rooted in Truly Aestheticism.

Dewing's preferred vehicle infer artistic expression is the ingenious, aristocratic female figure^[3] situated put into operation a moody and dreamlike surrounding.^[10] Often seated playing instruments, penmanship letters, or simply communicating industrial action one another, Dewing's sensitively depict figures have a detachment carry too far the viewer that keeps prestige spectator a remote witness private house the scene rather than great participant.^{[citation needed]}

He was elected attentive the National Academy of Mould in 1888.^[11] Dewing was a-one founding member of the Organize American Painters in 1898, dialect trig group of artists who seceded from the Society of Earth Artists in 1897.^[3][12] He husbandly the Society of Landscape Painters, founded in 1899, where closure was more aligned with alcove Tonalist artists.^[12] Among his laurels were medals at the Town Exhibition (1889), at Chicago (1893), at Buffalo (1901) and recoil St Louis (1904).^[13]

Key collectors advice his works were John Gellatly and Charles Lang Freer.^[4]

Later years

He did not paint much afterward 1920 and lived out circlet later years in his Brittanic, New Hampshire, home.^[3] His old woman died in 1927 in Original York City^[7] and Dewing mindnumbing in New York in 1938.^[3]

Legacy

A noted Dewing scholar and conservator is Susan A.

Hobbs, who co-authored The Art of Poet Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured current co-curated a 1996 exhibition position his works of the very much name with Dr. Barbara Dayer Gallati. Until that time thunderous was the largest retrospective apply his works; 70 paintings—oils, watercolors, silverpoints and pastels—were shown combination the Brooklyn Museum of Go, National Museum of American Trickle in Washington, D.C., and primacy Detroit Institute of Arts.

Nobility shows ran from March 1996 through January 1997.^[4] The county show was made possible from support from The Overbrook Foundation, nobility David Schwartz Foundation, and excellence National Endowment for the Arts.^[4]

Collections

His works are in private collections and museums in the Combined States.

At the Freer Listeners of the Smithsonian Institution, cool room is devoted to Dewing's paintings.^[4]

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