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| Thomas Wilmer Dewing |
| 1851-1938 |
| American Artist |
| Dewing was born in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. As a child he was interested in both drawing and in playing the violin; this early interest in music would later reappear in the themes of many of his paintings. Traveling to Paris in 1876 he entered the Academie Julian. Dewing returned to America early in 1878, and settled in Boston, where he became an assistant at the newly founded School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Later, deciding that New York provided greater opportunities for an aspiring artist, Dewing moved there in 1880 and took a studio on 57th Street. By the late 1880s Dewing had formed his basic style and subject matter--elegant, refined women portrayed with an extremely limited range of colors and placed in sparse interiors or outdoors in soft green fields. He drew inspiration from the paintings of the Dutch artist Vermeer and from the aesthetics of James A. M. Whistler and the English artist Albert Moore. His brushwork became increasingly soft and blurred. |
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