Frame for Dewing's The Blue Dress

Object Details

• Designer

  Stanford White (1853-1906)

• Description

  A gilded cassetta frame, the sight edge with leaf and berry molding and cross straps at the center points and corners surrounded by beading, the ogee frieze covered by a raised grill with inner feather and outer bud ornament overlaid with vines at the miters, and with outer bead and reel border. Burnishing bronze surface may be original.

• Provenance

  To 1913

  Thomas W. Dewing (1851-1938), to 1913 [1]

  From 1913 to 1919

  Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Thomas Wilmer Dewing in February 1913 [2]

  From 1920

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] See Curatorial Remarks, Linda Merrill, December 1993, in the object record. Also see List American Paintings other than Whistler, A, pg. 9, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] 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

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

  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)

  American Paintings (July 1, 1974 to December 5, 1975)

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

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

  The One Hundred and Eleventh Annual Exhibition (February 06 to March 26, 1916)

  First Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists (April 9 to May 31, 1915)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938)

  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

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1910s, 1900s

• Name

  Freer, Charles Lang, Dewing, Thomas Wilmer

• Place

  New York, United States

• Topic

  Gilding, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, American Art

• Culture

  Americans

• Object Type

  Frames