Lot 44: Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938)

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) The Palm Leaf Fan signed 'T.W. Dewing' (lower right) oil on panel 24 x 17½ in. (60.9 x 44.4 cm.) Painted circa 1906.

New York, Lotus Club, Lotus Club Exhibition of Paintings by Living Artists, March 30-April 6, 1906, no. 15. New York, Lotus Club, Lotus Club Exhibition of Paintings by Living Artists, March 30-April 6, 1911, no. 15. Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings by American Painters, July 1911, no. 17. Uniontown, Pennsylvania, St. David's, Collection of Paintings Assembled by W.J. Johnson, Uniontown, PA, 1923, no. 25. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Exhibition of Paintings by Thomas W. Dewing, February-March 1924, no. 14 (as Lady with Palm Leaf Fan). New York, Macbeth Gallery, Collectors' Examples, October 1934. New York, The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., Impressionism in America: The Ten American Painters, May 18-June 28, 1991. Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, and elsewhere, The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured, March 21-June 9, 1996.

"Lotus Club Display," American Art News, vol. 9, April 8, 1911, p. 7. "Fourteenth Annual Summer Exhibition of Oil Paintings by American Painters," Bulletin of the Worcester Art Museum, vol. 2, July 1911, p. 7. Carnegie Institute, Exhibition of Paintings by Thomas W. Dewing, exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1924, n.p., no. 14 (as Lady with Palm Leaf Fan). F.N. Price, "The Johnsons of Uniontown," International Studio, vol. 80, December 1924, p. 199, illustrated. D.K. Johnston, "Art in Uniontown," The American Magazine of Art, vol. 16, no. 9, September 1925, p. 465. R. Cortissoz, "The Lure that American Art had for Collectors in Another Day," The New York Tribune, October 21, 1934, p. 10, illustrated. N. Chilcott, A Champion of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, 1975, p. 78. U.W. Hiesinger, Impressionism in America: The Ten American Painters, exhibition catalogue, Munich, Germany, 1991, pp. 167, 187, pl. 66, illustrated. S.A. Hobbs, The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured, exhibition catalogue, Brooklyn, New York, 1996, pp. 33, 70, 162, 172-73, no. 41, pl. 41, illustrated.

John Gallatly, circa 1906. [With]Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1918. William J. Johnson, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, acquired from the above. [With]Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1933. W.A. Trafton, acquired from the above, 1934. By descent, until 1989. [With]The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York, by 1991. Private collection. Vance Jordan Fine Art, Inc., New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2000.