Classical Figures, 1898

  • Thomas Wilmer Dewing, American, 1851-1938

Oil on panel

  • Framed (H at left x W to foot): 74 1/4 × 76 1/2 inches (188.6 × 194.3 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James O. Keene in memory of their daughter, Sandra Mae Long

72.839

On View

  • American, Level 2, West
  • American, Level 2, West
  • American, Level 2, West

Department

American Art before 1950

Signed, in lower left corner of left screen: T. W. Dewing

ca. 1989, Colonel Frank J. Hecker (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

unknown patron (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

unknown patron (Royal Oak, Michigan, USA)

dealer, George Heckroth

Mr. and Mrs. James O. Keene

1972-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Pyne, Kathleen. "Classical Figures: A three Panel, Folding Screen by Thomas Dewing." Bulletin of the DIA 59, no. 1 (Spring 1981): pp. 4-15 (cover ill.). Hobbs, Susan A. The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured. Exh. cat., The Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 26, pp. 28, 138-139, 141.

Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Classical Figures, 1898, oil on panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James O. Keene in memory of their daughter, Sandra Mae Long, 72.839.