Frame for Dewing's The Garland

Object Details

• Designer

  Stanford White (1853-1906)

• Description

  A gilded cassetta frame, the sight edge with leaf and berry molding and cross straps on center points and corners and surrounded by beaded border, the ogee frieze covered by a raised grill, the mesh with inner feather and outer bud ornament, overlaid with vines at the miters, with a bead and reel outer border, and an ogee 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)

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

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

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

  American Paintings (September 8, 1961 to May 2, 1973)

  Untitled Exhibition, American Oil Paintings, 1958 (June 29, 1958 to October 27, 1959)

  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, 1944 (March 23, 1944 to November 15, 1944)

  Untitled Exhibition, American Oil Paintings (May 1, 1933 to February 6, 1944)

  American Paintings by Dewing, Sargeant, Homer, Tryon, Brush, Melchers and Whistler (March 23, 1925 to May 5, 1933)

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

• Origin

  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

  1920s, 1910s

• Name

  White, Stanford

• Place

  New York, United States

• Topic

  Gilding, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, American Art

• Culture

  Americans

• Object Type

  Frames