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Portrait in Blue

Object Details

Provenance
From 1898 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Thomas Wilmer Dewing in 1898 [1]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [2]
Notes:
[1] Object file.
[2] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History
Dewing’s Poetic World (November 27, 2019 to May 29, 2022)
Pretty Women: Freer and the Ideal of Feminine Beauty (August 13, 2005 to September 17, 2006)
Choice Spirits: Works by Thomas Dewing and Dwight Tryon (March 9, 1996 to July 7, 1997)
American Paintings by Dewing, Sargeant, Homer, Tryon, Brush, Melchers and Whistler (March 23, 1925 to May 5, 1933)
Exhibition of Oriental and American Art Under the Joint Auspices of the Alumni Memorial Committee and the Ann Arbor Art Association (May 11 to May 30, 1910)
Third Annual Exhibition of Paintings including a Special Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Childe Hassam of New York (February 1 to March 1, 1909)
An Exhibition of Paintings by T.W. Dewing (January 24, 1898 to February 10, 1898)
Previous custodian or owner
Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
Data Source
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Artist
Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938)
Date
1898
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
H x W: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in)
Type
Painting
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