Thomas (Wilmer) Dewing

Painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He studied in Paris (1879), settled in New York City, and painted ethereal scenes of isolated women, as in ‘The Recitation’ (1891). From 1898–1919 he exhibited with the Ten.

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, 1851 – November 5, 1938) was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. He married Maria Oakey Dewing, an accomplished painter with extensive formal art training and familial links with the art world.

He is best known for his tonalist paintings, a sub-genre of American art that was rooted in English Aestheticism. The ethereal delicacy and subtle color harmonies of Dewing's paintings have not met with universal approval: some feminist critics have lambasted Dewing's work as being misogynistic;

Tonalism quickly came to be considered outdated with the advent of modernism and abstraction in art, though Dewing was successful in his own day.

Dewing was a member of the Ten American Painters, a group of Impressionists who seceded from the Society of American Artists in 1897.

He spent his summers at the art colony in Cornish, New Hampshire.

The foremost Dewing scholar living today is Susan A. The most complete publication regarding Dewing in book format is The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured.