Morning
Date1879
Artist
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
(American painter, 1851–1938)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions35 x 59 1/2 in. (88.9 x 151.1 cm)
frame: 48 x 71.5 in. (104.1 x 181.6 cm)
frame: 48 x 71.5 in. (104.1 x 181.6 cm)
Credit LineSpecial Purchase Fund, 1975
Object number1975-61
On View
On viewCollections
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextMorning was painted when Dewing returned to Boston after studying painting in Paris. The canvas was first exhibited in 1880 at the Doll and Richards Gallery in Boston, where visitors found it eccentric and difficult to understand. A critic of the day compared this American painting to “the Burne-Jones school of English painters.”William Thomas Smedley
1891