Lady in White (No. 1)
1910 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions 66.6 × 51.3 cm
In this painting, Thomas Wilmer Dewing so simplified the space that it appears to exist outside of time. He painted Lady in White (No. 1) in the same year that the United States entered World War I, and works such as this provided Dewing's patrons with an antidote to the turmoil of the times.
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Lady in White (No. 1) (1910) by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, oil on canvas.
About Thomas Wilmer Dewing
"Born in Boston, studied in Paris, settled in New York City. A sensitive figure painter and accomplished draftsman who specialized in ethereal pictures of women; he virtually ceased painting after 1920. Charles Sullivan, ed American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N.
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