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14 Facts About Thomas Dewing

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Thomas Wilmer Dewing was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century.

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Thomas Dewing was a founding member of the Ten American Painters and taught at the Art Students League of New York.

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Thomas Dewing was the husband of fellow artist Maria Oakey Dewing.

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Thomas Dewing later studied at the Academie Julian in Paris with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre beginning in 1876.

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In 1880 he moved to New York where he met and married Maria Oakey Thomas Dewing, an accomplished painter with extensive formal art training and familial links with the art world.

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Thomas Dewing began teaching at the Art Students League of New York in 1881, the same year he married Maria Oakley.

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Thomas Dewing is best known for his tonalist paintings, a genre of American art that was rooted in English Aestheticism.

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Thomas Dewing's preferred vehicle of artistic expression is the refined, aristocratic female figure situated in a moody and dreamlike surrounding.

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Thomas Dewing was elected into the National Academy of Design in 1888.

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Thomas Dewing was a founding member of the Ten American Painters in 1898, a group of artists who seceded from the Society of American Artists in 1897.

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Thomas Dewing joined the Society of Landscape Painters, founded in 1899, where he was more aligned with other Tonalist artists.

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Thomas Dewing did not paint much after 1920 and lived out his later years in his Cornish, New Hampshire, home.

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Thomas Dewing's wife died in 1927 in New York City and Dewing died in New York in 1938.

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Thomas Dewing's works are in private collections and museums in the United States.