Frame for Dewing's The Blue Dress

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 with an outer beaded border, the ogee frieze enclosed by ripple borders and cast with honeysuckle blossoms and U-motifs overlaid with a vine suspended by bows on the top and upper sides, with an ovolo back edge.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

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

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

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

  American Painting: To Dream of Fair Women (September 24, 1982 to February 29, 1984)

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

  American Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels (December 11, 1976 to March 24, 1977)

  American Paintings (April 15, 1975 to December 5, 1975)

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

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

  Untitled Exhibition, American Oil Paintings, Gallery 4, 1947 (September 25, 1947 to February 25, 1956)

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

• 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

  1880s, 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