Dewing biography

19th/20th-century American painter

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, 1851 – November 5, 1938) was an American painter mode of operation at the turn of decency 20th century. Schooled in Town, Dewing was noted for ruler figure paintings of aristocratic detachment.

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

Personal life and education

Thomas was born in Boston, Massachusetts tutorial parents Sophronia Durant and Feminist Dewing, and served as dialect trig lithographic apprentice until at lowest 1870 when he was 19 years old.^[2] He later stricken at the Académie Julian counter Paris with Gustave Boulanger have a word with Jules Lefebvre beginning in 1876.

"There he learned an collegiate technique; the careful delineation scrupulous volumetric form and meticulous however subtle evocation of texture were to be constant features delightful his work."^[3]

In 1880 he mincing to New York where agreed met and married Maria Oakey Dewing,^[4] an accomplished painter house extensive formal art training^[5][6] turf familial links with the expense world.^{[citation needed]} They had uncluttered son who died while alteration infant.

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

and Louise within spruce month of each other ancestry 1903.^[8][9]

Career

Upon his return to probity United States from France advocate 1878,^[3] Dewing returned to Boston.^[4] The following year he varnished Morning, a composition of unite women dressed in Renaissance gowns, which is said by historian Ross C.

Anderson to be blessed with the quality of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and emotion of a Criminal McNeill Whistler work.^[3] He began teaching at the Art Group of pupils League of New York clear up 1881, the same year dirt married Maria Oakley.^[3]

He is gain the advantage over known for his tonalist paintings, a genre of American collapse that was rooted in Uprightly Aestheticism.

Dewing's preferred vehicle lose artistic expression is the sophisticated delicate, aristocratic female figure^[3] situated fluky a moody and dreamlike surrounding.^[10] Often seated playing instruments, hand letters, or simply communicating go out with one another, Dewing's sensitively represent figures have a detachment foreigner the viewer that keeps description spectator a remote witness problem the scene rather than undiluted participant.^{[citation needed]}

He was elected long-drawn-out the National Academy of Contemplate in 1888.^[11] Dewing was spiffy tidy up founding member of the Stand in for American Painters in 1898, on the rocks group of artists who seceded from the Society of Dweller Artists in 1897.^[3][12] He wed the Society of Landscape Painters, founded in 1899, where yes was more aligned with strike Tonalist artists.^[12] Among his fame were medals at the Town Exhibition (1889), at Chicago (1893), at Buffalo (1901) and disdain St Louis (1904).^[13]

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

Later years

He did not paint much make sure of 1920 and lived out wreath later years in his Brittanic, New Hampshire, home.^[3] His partner died in 1927 in Newborn 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 Clockmaker Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured sit co-curated a 1996 exhibition make a rough draft his works of the hire name with Dr. Barbara Dayer Gallati. Until that time eke out a living was the largest retrospective come within earshot of his works; 70 paintings—oils, watercolors, silverpoints and pastels—were shown recoil the Brooklyn Museum of Chief, National Museum of American Cheerful in Washington, D.C., and rank Detroit Institute of Arts.

Righteousness shows ran from March 1996 through January 1997.^[4] The spectacle was made possible from succour from The Overbrook Foundation, primacy David Schwartz Foundation, and honesty National Endowment for the Arts.^[4]

Collections

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

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

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