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Lady in Green and Gray

A work made of oil on canvas.

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  • A work made of oil on canvas.

Date:

1911

Artist:

Thomas Wilmer Dewing
American, 1851–1938

About this artwork

Thomas Wilmer Dewing began creating decorative paintings of women in interiors around 1886, using this subject to explore formal qualities of color and composition. Like the painter James McNeill Whistler, he was especially concerned with rendering subtle distinctions of hue and value. Although the sitters in Dewing’s interiors were intended to be anonymous, many of them were recognizable to contemporary viewers as his friends or lovers. The woman depicted in Lady in Green and Gray is Gertrude McNeill, an actress who frequently posed for the artist between 1911 and 1917.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

Thomas Wilmer Dewing

Title

Lady in Green and Gray

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1911

Medium

Oil on canvas

Inscriptions

Signed lower right: "TW Dewing"

Dimensions

61.3 × 50.8 cm (24 1/8 × 20 in.)

Credit Line

Friends of American Art Collection

Reference Number

1911.5

Extended information about this artwork

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