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Artist:
Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938)  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
H x W: 107 x 137.4 cm (42 1/8 x 54 1/8 in)
Type:
Painting
Origin:
United States
Date:
1892
Provenance:
From 1892 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Thomas Wilmer Dewing on December 27, 1892 [1]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
Notes:
[1] Object file.
[2] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Dewing’s Poetic World (November 27, 2019 to May 29, 2022)
Sylvan Sounds: Freer, Dewing, and Japan (May 18, 2013 to January 4, 2015)
Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer's Aesthetic Vision (February 23, 2008 to August 1, 2010)
Pretty Women: Freer and the Ideal of Feminine Beauty (August 13, 2005 to September 17, 2006)
Art for Art's Sake (July 23, 1997 to January 24, 2008)
Choice Spirits: Works by Thomas Dewing and Dwight Tryon (March 9, 1996 to July 7, 1997)
American Art - Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 9, 1993 to February 20, 1996)
Thomas Wilmer Dewing (January 3, 1985 to May 7, 1985)
American Painting: To Dream of Fair Women (September 24, 1982 to February 29, 1984)
Thomas Wilmer Dewing (June 19, 1980 to March 18, 1981)
American Paintings: Thomas Wilmer Dewing (December 11, 1976 to April 16, 1977)
Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 8 and 9 (February 25, 1956 to April 28, 1958)
Special Dewing Centennial Exhibition (May 17, 1951 to July 1, 1951)
American Paintings, T.W. Dewing (May 2, 1923 to March 23, 1925)
Loan Collection of Paintings by Mr. T.W. Dewing (February 27 to March 20, 1900)
An Exhibition of Paintings by T.W. Dewing (January 24, 1898 to February 10, 1898)
Untitled Exhibition, Salon de Champ de Mars, 1895 (1895)
World's Columbian Exposition (May 1 to October 30, 1893)
Previous custodian or owner:
Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
Topic:
night  Search this
United States  Search this
American Art  Search this
Charles Lang Freer collection  Search this
Credit Line:
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Accession Number:
F1906.68a-b
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
Data Source:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye335157ebd-3435-4f22-b71a-4eb785b854ae
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:fsg_F1906.68a-b