The Mirror

Maker(s)
Artist: Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938)
Historical period(s)
1907
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
H x W: 50.8 x 40 cm (20 x 15 3/4 in)
Geography
United States
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art
Accession Number
F1907.168a-b
On View Location
Freer Gallery 10: A Perfect Harmony
Classification(s)
Painting
Type

Oil painting

Keywords
mirror, United States, woman
Provenance

To 1907
N. E. Montross (1849-1932), New York, NY, to 1907 [1]

From 1907 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from N. E. Montross on October 17, 1907 [2]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] See Freer to Montross, 17 October 1907, and Montross to Freer, 18 October 1907, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[2] See note 1.

[3] 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.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

N.E. Montross (C.L. Freer source) 1849-1932
Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919

Published References
  • Kathleen Pyne. Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O'Keefe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle. Berkeley. pl. 9.
  • Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings of Ten American Painters: exhibition held Apr. 11 - May 3, 1908. Exh. cat. Philadelphia. no. 35.
  • et al. Ten American Painters. Exh. cat. New York, May 8 - June 9, 1990. fig. 41.
  • Martha Banta. Imaging American Women: Ideas and Ideals in Cultural History. New York, 1987. fig. 8.26.
  • Susan Hobbs. The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured. Exh. cat. Washington, 1996. p. 36, fig. 27.
  • Thomas Lawton, Linda Merrill. Freer: a legacy of art. Washington and New York, 1993. pp. 168-169, fig. 115.
  • Melody Barnett Deusner. Aesthetic Painting in Britain and America: Collectors, Art Worlds, Networks. London, England, November 17, 2020. p. 208, fig. 99.
  • Charles Henry Caffin. The Art of Thomas W. Dewing. vol. 116, no. 695, April 1908. p. 720.
Collection Area(s)
American Art
Web Resources
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