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A Repository of Repose; At the National Museum of American Art, Thomas Dewing's Ladies of Leisure
From:
The Washington Post
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August 4, 1996| Author:
Jo Ann Lewis
| Copyright 1996 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) made gilded images of a
Gilded Age, even as the times shifted beneath him. Mostly, he
painted women -- slim, elongated women seated alone in airless
rooms, wearing diaphanous gowns that set off the languid curves of
their long necks, milk-white shoulders and dangling arms.
Sometimes they hold an antique jar, look into a mirror or
fondle a lute. At their most active, they romp in sylvan settings,
holding garlands of flowers or listening to war...
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; NEW YORK - Thomas Wilmer Dewing? It's not exactly a household name. Yet two Washington museums are now honoring this turn-of-the-century American painter who was not even famous in his own time. First we have the National Museum of American Art, hosting the first major retrospective of the painter,
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Susan A. Hobbs: `Subtleties of painting' imbue Gilded Age works of the unfamiliar Dewing.(Arts)(Q&A)
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; ... Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured. THE SCENE: In the dimly lit rooms of the museum's Granite Gallery, the day before the news conference for the exhibit. THE PERSON: Alexandria's Susan A. Hobbs, curator of the exhibit and author of the exhibit catalog ...
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