Frame for Dewing's The Carnation

Object Details

• Designer

  Stanford White (1853-1906)

• Frame maker

  Alexander J. Cabus (born after 1891)

• Description

  A gilded cassetta frame, the sight edge with leaf and berry molding and cross straps at center points and corners, the ogee frieze cast with a grill pattern and vines at miters, and with an ovolo back edge.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  American Art - Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 9, 1993 to February 20, 1996)

  American Paintings (March 20, 1981 to September 24, 1981)

  Thomas Wilmer Dewing (June 19, 1980 to March 18, 1981)

  American Paintings (October 14, 1978 to March 18, 1981)

  American Paintings: Thomas Wilmer Dewing (December 11, 1976 to April 16, 1977)

  American Paintings (November 11, 1976 to October 12, 1978)

  Centennial Exhibition, Galleries 8 and 9 (February 25, 1956 to April 28, 1958)

  Special Dewing Centennial Exhibition (May 17, 1951 to July 1, 1951)

• Origin

  New York, New York, United States

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Frame

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1900s, 1890s

• Name

  White, Stanford, Cabus, Alexander J.

• Place

  New York, United States

• Topic

  Gilding, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, American Art

• Culture

  Americans

• Object Type

  Frames