The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 16, 2024
Standing Woman in a Black Gown
after 1909
(American, 1851–1938)
Sheet: 36.4 x 28.4 cm (14 5/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
Inspired by an exhibition of James McNeill Whistler’s pastels at H. Wunderlich & Company in New York City in 1889, Dewing began making pastels the following year. Like Whistler, he used a small format to portray isolated, highly aestheticized young women in interiors without dramatic context. Ultimately, Dewing made more than 200 pastels, works of art in and of themselves, unrelated to his oil paintings. The figure here, wearing a midnight-blue gown, is diaphanous, opalescent, almost dreamlike in her insubstantiality.- Hobbs, Susan and Shoshanna Abeles. Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty into Art: A Catalogue Raisonné. [Alexandria, VA] : The Thomas Wilmer Dewing Catalogue Raisonné ; New Haven: in association with Yale University Press 2018. Mentioned: p. 908, cat. # 516; Reproduced: p. 909, plate 516
- Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1938.122