About the Artwork
The Recitation
1891
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
1851-1938
American
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 30 × 55 inches (76.2 × 139.7 cm) Framed: 48 × 72 × 2 3/4 inches (121.9 × 182.9 × 7 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Picture Fund
08.9
Copyright Not Evaluated
Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: T. W. Dewing | 1891
Provenance
Private collector (London, England).Newman Montross Galleries;
1908-present, purchase by the Detroit Museum of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA).
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Burroughs, C. H. "Purchase from Picture Fund. Painting by Thomas W. Dewing The Recitation is added to the Museum's Permanent Collection." Bulletin of the DMA, 12, no. 4 (October 1908): pp. 49-50, (ill.).
American Paintings. Exh. cat., Albright Art Gallery. Buffalo, New York,1909, cat. 60, p. 27 (ill.).
Exhibition of Oriental and American Art. Exh. cat., University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, 1910, no. 42 (ill.).
"Superb Exhibition of Oriental and American Art Held Under the Auspices of the University of Michigan and the Art Association of Ann Arbor." Academy Notes 5, no. 3 (July 1910): p. 3.
Sixteenth Annual Exhibition. Exh. cat., The Carnegie Institute. Pittsburgh, 1912, cat. 1912.
Annual Exhibition of American Art. Exh. cat., Art Association of Indianapolis. Indianapolis, 1912, cat. 20.
Seventh Annual Exhibition of Selected American Paintings. Exh. cat., City Art Museum. St. Louis, 1912, cat. 35.
Inaugural Exhibition. Exh. cat., Museum of Art. Toledo, Ohio, 1912, cat. 27.
Burroughs, Clyde H. "Thomas W. Dewing." Bulletin of the DMA 7, no. 3 (July 1913): p. 52.
American Painting and Sculpture. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1932, no. 25.
American Painting/American Sculpture: Three Centuries. Exh. cat., The Wadworth Athenaeum. Hartford, no. 18.
Cahill, Holger, and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., eds. Art in America in Modern Times. New York, 1934.
Cahill, Holger, ed. Art in America. New York, 1935.
Romantic Painting in America. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1943, no. 76.
Pierson, William Henry, and Martha Davidson, eds. Arts of the United States: A Pictorial Survey. New York, 1960.
American Painting, 1865-1905. Exh. cat., The Art Gallery of Toronto. Toronto, 1961, no. 16 (pl. 17).
American Traditional Painters. Exh. cat., American Federation of the Arts. Traveling, 1962-1963.
Art of the United States: 1670-1966. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of Art. New York, 1966, no. 70 (ill.).
Novak, Barbara. American Painting of the Nineteenth Century. New York: 1969, p. 246 (ill.).
Wilmerding, John. The Genius of American Painting. London, 1973, p. 186 (ill.).
McShine, Kynaston, ed. The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1976.
Pyne, Kathleen, "Classical Figures: A Three Panel, Folding Screen by Thomas Dewing," Bulletin of the DIA 59, no. 1 (1981): pp. 17-21 (ill.).
Boyle, Richard J. American Impressionism. Boston, 1974, pp. 130-132.
Brunk, Thomas W. "A Note on Charles Lang Freer." Bulletin of the DIA 59, no. 1 (1981): p. 21 (ill.).
Gerdts, William H. William Glackens. New York, 1984, p. 177 (ill.).
Burns, Sarah. The Poetic Mode in American Painting: George Fuller and Thomas Dewing. Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Urbanan-Champaign, Urbanan-Champaign, 1979.
Hobbs, Susan A. "Thomas Dewing in Cornish, 1885-1905." American Art Journal 17, no. 2 (Spring 1985): pp. 14-15 (ill.).
A Circle of Friends: Art Colonies of Cornish and Dublin. Exh. cat., University Art Galleries. Durham, 1985.
Schiller, Joyce. "Frame Designs by Stanford White." Bulletin of the DIA 64, no. 1 (1988): pp. 20-31, (ill. fig. 9).
Pyne, Kathleen, Immanence, Transcendence, and Impressionism in Late 19th-Century American Painting, Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1988, p. 270.
"Detroit Lends Dewing work to Richmond." News Leader Richmond, September 24, 1988.
Shapiro, Michael Edward, and Peter H. Hassrick. Frederick Remington: The Masterworks. New York, 1988, p. 64 (ill.).
Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art. Tokyo, 1989, no. 71, (ill.).
Pyne, Kathleen. Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America. Austin, 1996, p. 159 (ill.).
Hobbs. Susan A. The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured. Exh. cat., The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 1996, pp. 155-157 (ill.).
Burns, Sarah Lea. Inventing the Modern Artist: Art and Culture in Gilded Age America. New Haven, 1996, p. 70 (ill.).
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Thomas Wilmer Dewing, The Recitation, 1891, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Picture Fund, 08.9.
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