Summer
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
ca. 1890
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans
Accession Number
1909.7.21
Tags
femalesummer
About this artwork
Thomas Wilmer Dewingâs 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 âhigher lifeâ for an age in which Darwinâs theories challenged Christian beliefs and urban industrialization disrupted lifeâs natural rhythms. Summer shows women in evening gowns theatrically ...