14 Facts About Thomas Dewing

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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