Frame for Dewing's After Sunset

Object Details

• Artist

  Designed by Stanford White (1853-1906)

• Frame maker

  Alexander J. Cabus (born after 1891)

• Description

  A gilded and carved reverse frame, with an ogee sight edge, the broad ogee frieze with inner applied vine and flower ornament, each side with broad volutes.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Sylvan Sounds: Freer, Dewing, and Japan (May 18, 2013 to January 4, 2015)

  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)

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

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

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

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

• Origin

  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

  United States

• Topic

  Gilding, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, American Art

• Culture

  Americans

• Object Type

  Frames