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Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938)

Aliases: Thomas W. Dewing

Professions: Painter; Lithographer

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    Lady Standing Holding a Cello

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    Seated Lady in a Yellow Dress

    Seated Lady in a Yellow Dress

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    THOMAS WILMER DEWING

    THOMAS WILMER DEWING

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    Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938)

    Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938)

Thomas Wilmer Dewing Biography

(b Boston, 4 May 1851; d New York, 1938). American painter. Apprenticed at an early age in a lithography shop, he went to Paris in 1876 to study under Jules Lefèbvre and Gustave Boulanger at the Académie Julian. There he learnt an academic technique; the careful delineation of volumetric form and meticulous but subtle evocation of texture were to be constant features of his work. Paintings done after his return to the USA in 1878, such as Morning (1879; Wilmington, DE, A. Mus.), in which two enigmatic figures in Renaissance costume blow delicate, elongated horns before a pair of attentive whippets, have a symbolic quality closer to the work of the Pre-Raphaelites than to contemporary French painting. In addition, they have an aesthetic languor and preciousness reminiscent of James McNeill Whistler. In the considerably more vigorous The Days (1887; Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum), the shallow frieze-like arrangement of robust, rhythmically interacting women in classical drapery strongly recalls the art of Albert Joseph Moore and Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

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