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Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, 1851 – November 5, 1938) was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Schooled in Paris, Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women.
Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, 1851 – November 5, 1938) was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Schooled in Paris, Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women. He was a founding member of the Ten American Painters and taught at the Art Students League of New York.
Thomas Wilmer Dewing was an American painter of ethereal women, born in Boston and died in New York. He studied in Paris and stopped painting after 1920. See his works and biography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum website.
Biography. Thomas Dewing was born on May 4, 1851, in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. As a child he was interested in both drawing and in playing the violin; this early interest in music would later reappear in the themes of many of his paintings.
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.
Aug 27, 2019 · ALEXANDRIA, VA. – To gaze upon a work by Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) is to be drawn into a waking dream. Whether in oil or pastel, reveries by the Boston-born aesthete typically depict languid, remote, ethereal women. In groups, they form friezes in dusky, ambiguous landscapes.
Boston-born and Paris-trained Thomas Wilmer Dewing is known as an "artist’s artist," given the lifetime appeal of his refined work to a select audience. In "The Letter," Dewing embraces his favorite theme—a contemplative woman in a genteel environment.
