Summer
ca. 1890
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 107 × 137.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135692
Thomas Wilmer Dewing’s paintings of elegant women evoked an exclusive world of beauty and refined taste. From 1885 until 1905, Dewing was a key figure in the artist colony at Cornish, New Hampshire, which included Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Abbott Thayer. They agreed that art and beauty offered a “higher life” for an age in which Darwin’s theories challenged Christian beliefs and urban industrial…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans
Registry history
- ca. 1890 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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