  About the Artwork
  
  
  Although Maria Oakey Dewing had shown an interest in figure painting early in her career, she turned her attention to flower painting following her marriage in 1881 to the artist Thomas Dewing. Her floral subjects were painted both indoors and outdoors in the garden she and her husband maintained at their summer home in Cornish, New Hampshire. Irises and Calla Lilies is remarkable for its fusion of intensely observed detail with decorative compositional elements, showing her awareness of Japanese art
  
  
  Title
  Irises and Calla Lilies
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between ca. 1890 and 1905
  
  Artist
  Maria Oakey Dewing
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1845-1927
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil on panel
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 16 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches (41.9 × 34.3 cm)
  Framed: 21 3/4 × 18 3/4 × 1 15/16 inches (55.3 × 47.6 × 4.9 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  American Art before 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1991.112
  
  
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