About the Artwork
Classical Figures
1898
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
1851-1938
American
Unknown
Oil on panel
Framed (H at left x W to foot): 74 1/4 × 76 1/2 inches (188.6 × 194.3 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James O. Keene in memory of their daughter, Sandra Mae Long
72.839
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Markings
Signed, in lower left corner of left screen: T. W. Dewing
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Provenance
ca. 1989, Colonel Frank J. Hecker (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
unknown patron (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
unknown patron (Royal Oak, Michigan, USA)
dealer, George Heckroth
Mr. and Mrs. James O. Keene
1972-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Pyne, Kathleen. "Classical Figures: A three Panel, Folding Screen by Thomas Dewing." Bulletin of the DIA 59, no. 1 (Spring 1981): pp. 4-15 (cover ill.).
Hobbs, Susan A. The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured. Exh. cat., The Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 26, pp. 28, 138-139, 141.
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Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Classical Figures, 1898, oil on panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James O. Keene in memory of their daughter, Sandra Mae Long, 72.839.
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