Maria Oakey Dewing
Maria Oakey Dewing [ məɹi ː ə ː oʊki you ɪŋ ] ( born October 27, 1845 in New York; † December 13, 1927 ibid ) was an American painter and the wife of Thomas Dewing.
Life
Dewings mother, Sally Sullivan, came from Boston. In London, Sullivan was the wife of the painter Gilbert Stuart Newton, who in turn was a nephew of Gilbert Stuart. 1835 widowed, Sullivan returned to America and married William Francis Oakey, with whom she had ten children, six of whom survived.
Maria Oakey studied at Cooper Union ( School of Design for Women ) in New York, then in 1871 at the National Academy of Design, where she also worked from the living model. 1875 left several students, including Oakey, the Academy and formed the Art Students League.
1872 and 1873 learned Oakey John La Farge, which they estimated as a flower painter. At the suggestion of La Farge organized Oakey and other painters in 1875 an exhibition at Cottier and Company, which is regarded as a counterpart to the Salon des Refusés, and as a starting point of an American art movement. Some years later, the Society of American Artists was founded.
In the middle of 1876 Oakey left for Europe, where she studied with Thomas Couture and visited except France and Britain and Italy.
In 1880 Oakey had established himself as a painter in America. In October of the same year, she met Thomas Dewing know and decided soon to marry the six year younger painters.
Since 1883, it limited their own work a favor of her husband and painted backgrounds in his works.
Beginning in 1886, the couple spent the summer in Cornish and bought a house with a garden. Maria Dewing, who had painted portraits before and in the early days of their marriage, here painted flower pictures, which are among the best work of their career. With the Dewings in the center is developed for the Cornish artists' colony.
1894 broke the Dewings on to Europe and in 1895 they were directed in Giverny, where Maria Dewing the painting Garden in May began her best-known work today.
In spring 1907, the first solo exhibition was held at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
She died in her studio from a heart attack. For a long time were rated higher on the art market works from her than her more famous husband.
Works
- Garden in May, 1895, oil on canvas, 60.1 x 82.5 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
- Iris at Dawn, 1899, oil on canvas, 64.1 x 79.4 cm, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire
- A Rose Garden, 1901, oil on canvas