Frame for Dewing's The Piano

Object Details

• Artist

  Designed by Stanford White (1853-1906)

• Frame maker

  Alexander J. Cabus (born after 1891)

• Description

  A gilded reverse frame, the sight edge with leaf and berry molding and cross straps at the center points and corners and with an outer beaded border, the ogee frieze covered by a raised grill, the mesh with an inner border of feathers and an outer of buds, overlaid with vines at the miters, the ogee outer molding with punched border rising to a flat outer edge.

• Provenance

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [1]

  Notes:

  [1] 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

  A Perfect Harmony (October 14, 2017 to October 8, 2023)

  Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer's Aesthetic Vision (February 23, 2008 to August 1, 2010)

  Art for Art's Sake (July 23, 1997 to January 24, 2008)

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

  Thomas Wilmer Dewing (January 3, 1985 to May 7, 1985)

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

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

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

  American Paintings, T.W. Dewing (May 2, 1923 to March 23, 1925)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

• 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

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• Date

  1890s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang

• Place

  New York, United States

• Topic

  Gilding, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, American Art

• Culture

  Americans

• Object Type

  Frames