id:			134244
accession number:	1956.725
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.725
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:40.931000

Head of a Woman, 1894 or after. Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American, 1851–1938). Silverpoint; sheet: 35.3 x 30.2 cm (13 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection 1956.725

title:				Head of a Woman
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creation date:			1894 or after
creation date earliest:		1894
creation date latest:		1899
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creditline:			The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection
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culture:	America, 19th century
technique:	silverpoint
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 19th Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American, 1851–1938)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 35.3 x 30.2 cm (13 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
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	description:	cream(3) wove paper prepared with a beige(1) ground
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, lower right, in metalpoint: T.W. Dewing
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		American Drawings: 1900-1930
	opening date:   1982-09-07T04:00:00
	<i>American Drawings: 1900-1930</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7-October 31, 1982).

	title:		America Draws
	opening date:   1984-12-28T05:00:00
	<i>America Draws</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985).

	title:		American Drawings from the Permanent Collection
	opening date:   1998-04-19T00:00:00
	<i>American Drawings from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'New York, Durlacher Bros., A Loan Exhibition:  Thomas W. Dewing. 26 March-20 April, 1963, no. 40 or 41 (could  be either drawing, neither is illustrated).', 'opening_date': '1963-03-26T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; 4/19/98 - 7/12/98.  "American Drawings from the Permanent Collection."', 'opening_date': '1998-04-19T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Estate of Fanny Tewksbury King, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1956
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 11, 1956–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hobbs, Susan and Shoshanna Abeles.<em> Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty into Art: A Catalogue Raisonné</em>. [Alexandria, VA]: The Thomas Wilmer Dewing Catalogue Raisonné; New Haven: in association with Yale University Press, 2018.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 998, cat. # 567; Reproduced: p. 999, plate 567
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