Complex exhibit of 'Pretty Women' (Joanna Shaw-Eagle) Sep 10, 2005
These contradictions fed his early concentration on works by turn-of-the-20th-century American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler and Americans Abbott Handerson Thayer, Dwight William Tryon and Thomas Wilmer Dewing, the exhibit's artists. Because Freer (1854-1919) is most famous for his Asian art holdings -- he deeded his collection to the Smithsonian in 1906 -- his earlier foray into buying work by these artists is all the more interesting. (Washington Times)
Smithsonian Exhibit Shows Taste in Women's Looks of Freer Gallery's Founder Aug 12, 2005
Freer also collected paintings of women by Thomas Wilmer Dewing - idealized figures playing the piano, smelling a carnation or posed in flowing gowns against hazy green landscapes. Dewing was a popular American painter at the turn of the century. (AP-Breaking News)
American Impressions: An Arcadian Vision, Paintings from the Akron Art Museum Dec 22, 2004
Six artists represented in this exhibition Weir, Hassam, Willard Metcalf, John Twachtman, William Merritt Chase, and Thomas Wilmer Dewing exhibited together as part of a group called the Ten American Painters, which was dedicated to promoting newer styles such as impressionism. American impressionist works appealed greatly to urban-based collectors who saw in them evidence of the restorative power of nature. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Innovative Whistler's Mother' at DIA in only U.S. stop May 14, 2004
The 63 paintings on display include 13 by Whistler and works by other prominent American artists, such as John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Wilmer Dewing and Henry Ossawa Tanner. The exhibit shows how Whistler's ideas about composition and color influenced his contemporaries and affected American art, the DIA said. (Monroe Evening News, MI)
