Lady with a Mask
1911
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
Painter, American, 1851 - 1938
West Building Main Floor, Gallery M70
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 56.2 × 61.3 cm (22 1/8 × 24 1/8 in.)
framed: 91.4 × 96.8 × 8.3 cm (36 × 38 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.) -
Accession Number
2014.79.16
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Collection of the artist, New York City; (N.E. Montross, New York); purchased 1911 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1924
Exhibition of Paintings by Thomas W. Dewing, Department of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1924, no. 13.
1939
Loan Exhibition From the Corcoran Gallery of Art: Selected Group of Twenty American Painters, Mint Museum, Charlotte, 1939, unnumbered catalogue.
1951
75th Anniversary Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by 75 Artists Associated with the Art Students League, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1951, no. 8.
1963
Thomas Dewing, 1851-1938, Durlacher Bros., New York, March-April 1963, no. 16.
The Romantic Century, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, June-September 1963, no catalogue.
1967
French and American Impressionism, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, 1967, no. 25.e.
1980
La Pintura de los Estados Unidos de Museos de la Ciudad de Washington [Painting in the United States from Public Collections in Washington], Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 1980-1981, no. 33.
1988
Le Japonisme, Palais du Louvre at the Grand Palais, Paris; National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1988, no. 101.
1996
The Art of Thomas Dewing, Brooklyn Museum; National Museum of American Art, Washington; Detroit Institute of Arts, 1996-1997, no. 45.
2002
The Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873-1921, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002, unpublished checklist.
2003
The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, unpublished checklist.
2004
Figuratively Speaking: The Human Form in American Art, 1770-1950, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2004-2005, unpublished checklist.
2005
Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no. 68.
2008
The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, unpublished checklist.
2009
American Paintings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 6 June-18 October 2009, unpublished checklist.
2013
American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013-28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.
Bibliography
1973
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 3-4, repro. 3.
2011
Staiti, Paul. "Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Lady with a Mask." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 202-203, 277, repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: T. W. Dewing
Wikidata ID
Q20191544