RocketshipRetroMar 28, 2025
🟡 A Woman Plays A Stringed Instrument, Another Dances, Thomas Wilmer Dewing 1895⁣
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A Woman Plays A Stringed Instrument, Another Dances, Thomas Wilmer Dewing 1895

A rich, yellow-green hued scene of a young woman with a musical instrument and another standing, dancing, singing.

RocketshipRetroMar 28, 2025
🟡 Woman Playing Music on a Spinet 1902 Thomas Wilmer Dewing⁣
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Woman Playing Music on a Spinet 1902 Thomas Wilmer Dewing

Beautiful, richly coloured depiction of a woman playing the spinet/piano, by Thomas Wilmer Dewing.

Jeff ShaumeyerMar 18, 2025
"Morning" (1879), by Thomas Wilmer Dewing. At the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware [USA]. 20161229
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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦Feb 26, 2024

"The Garland," Thomas Wilmer Dewing, c. 1916.

Dewing (1851-1938) was an American artist, known mostly for his portraits of aristocratic women, mostly in moody or dreamlike settings, and engaged in activities removed from the viewer. Some paintings seem to interact with you when you look at them; Dewing's do not.

There's disagreement about Dewing; some feel his women are showing their independence by actually DOING things, and communicating with each other. Others feel he uses women only as set pieces, as human still lifes. I like Dewing myself, but more for the mood his paintings give me, rather than anything they're portraying or saying. The hazy, dreamlike feel suits the vibe of being awake just before the sun rises, when everything is huge and soft and blurry...and they kind of suit the Edwardian, Merchant-Ivory, Pre-Raphaelite mood I get into when spring comes.

From the National Museum of Asian Art, Freer Collection, Washington, DC. (Yes, it's not Asian. It hung in the Freer Gallery, which was a mix of Asian art with Dewing and Whistler, so it was included.)

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