Thomas Wilmer DewingVereinigte Staaten, 1851–1938Summer
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- Unverändert seit
- 25. Sept. 2026
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- Sammlungsdaten des Museums selbst
About the painting
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 industrialization disrupted life’s natural rhythms. Summer shows women in evening gowns theatrically posed in nature and conveys the “Cornishite’s” attitude that life should be a chain of beautiful moments. Every summer, Dewing orchestrated twilight picnics and participated in theatrical performances with fellow artists and writers in the woods of Cornish. (Pyne, Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Nineteenth-century America, 1996)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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- Inventarnummer
- 1909.7.21
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum: the museum's own open data · abgerufen vor 5 Tagen
- Bild: Smithsonian American Art Museum — CC0
