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Thomas Wilmer Dewing American, 1851-1938
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Summer

1893

Thomas Wilmer Dewing

1851-1938

American

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Oil on canvas

Unframed: 50 1/2 × 32 1/2 inches (128.3 × 82.6 cm) Framed: 63 7/8 × 45 × 2 1/2 inches (162.2 × 114.3 × 6.4 cm)

Paintings

American Art before 1950

Bequest of Colonel Frank J. Hecker

27.316

Public Domain

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Signed and dated, lower left: T. W. Dewing |1893

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Colonel Frank J. Hecker (commissioned for the Hecker home);
1927-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Caffin, Charles Henry. The Art of Dwight W. Tryon: An Appreciation. New York, 1909, p. 59.

Walther, Josephine. “Bequest of Colonel Frank J. Hecker.” Bulletin of the DIA 9, 3 (1927-1928): pp. 26-28 (ill.).

Thomas W. Dewing. Exh. cat., Durlacher Brothers. New York, 1963, no. 12.

Pyne, Kathleen. "Classical Figures, A Folding Screen by Thomas Dewing." Bulletin of the DIA 59, 1 (Spring 1981): pp. 4-15.

Schiller, Joyce. "Frame designs by Stanford White." Bulletin of the DIA 64, 1 (1988): pp. 20-31 (fig. 1).

Smeaton, Suzanne. "Frames in Context: Four men and their Vision." Antiques and Fine Art Magazine (1991): pp. 110-118.

Henshaw, Julia P., ed. The Detroit Institute of Arts: A Visitor’s Guide. Detroit, 1995, pp. 72-73 (ill.).

Pyne, Kathleen. Art and the Higher Life: Painting and Evolutionary Thought in Late Nineteenth-Century America. Austin, 1996, pp. 161-162.

Wilner, Eli, ed. The Gilded Edge: The Art of the Frame. San Francisco, 2000, pp. 32-33 (ill.).

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Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Summer, 1893, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Colonel Frank J. Hecker, 27.316.

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