19 October 1864?C21 August 1915 Related Paintings of Thomas Pakenham :. | Erin Go Brach | The Battle of Ballynahinch on 13 June by Thomas Robinson,the most detailed and authentic picture of a battle painted in 1798 | The French are on the sea,says the Shan Van Vocht | The Unfortunate Henry Sheares | Theobald Wolfe Tone,the 33-year-old | Related Artists:
giuseppe verdiPeriod: Romantic (1820-1869)
Country: Italy
Born: October 09, 1813 in Le Roncole, Italy
Died: January 27, 1901 in Milan, Italy
Genres: Chamber Music, Choral Music, Miscellaneous Music, Opera, Vocal Music
Constance MayerMarie-Françoise-Constance Mayer-Lamartiniere
French Neoclassical Painter, 1775-1821
Thomas Dewing(May 4, 1851 C November 5, 1938) was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. He studied at the Acad??mie Julian in Paris, and later settled into a studio in New York City. He married Maria Oakey Dewing, an accomplished painter with extensive formal art training and familial links with the art world.
He is best known for his tonalist paintings, a sub-genre of American art that was rooted in English Aestheticism. Dewing's preferred vehicle of artistic expression is the female figure. Often seated playing instruments, writing letters, or engaged in other impassive actions and situated in gauzy, dreamy interiors, the figures remain remote and distant to the viewer. These scenes are infused with a color that pervades the entire picture, setting tone and mood. The ethereal delicacy and subtle color harmonies of Dewing's paintings have not met with universal approval: some feminist critics have lambasted Dewing's work as being misogynistic; he rarely painted anything other than the female figure, vacant of expression, languishing in sumptuous clothing.
Tonalism quickly came to be considered outdated with the advent of modernism and abstraction in art, though Dewing was successful in his own day. His art was considered extremely elegant, and has undergone a subtle revival in the last 10 years or so.
Dewing was a member of the Ten American Painters, a group of American Impressionists who seceded from the Society of American Artists in 1897.