Walt Whitman

1875 · Chalk

Dimensions 62.2 × 45.7 cm

Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Walt Whitman, 1875, chalk on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Robert Tyler Davis Memorial Fund, 1980.73

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Walt Whitman (1875) by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, chalk, from the American Collection.

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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