Maria Oakey Dewing

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Maria Oakey Dewing photograph by Fratelli Vianelli (between 1875 and 1885).

Maria Oakey Dewing [ məˈɹiːə ˈoʊki ˈduːɪŋ ] (born  October 27, 1845 in New York ; †  December 13, 1927 there ) was an American painter and the wife of Thomas Dewing .

Life

Dewing's mother, Sally Sullivan, was from Boston. In London, Sullivan was the wife of the painter Gilbert Stuart Newton, who in turn was a nephew of Gilbert Stuart . Widowed in 1835, Sullivan returned to America and married William Francis Oakey, with whom she had ten children, six of whom survived.

Maria Oakey studied at the Cooper Union (School of Design for Women) in New York, then from 1871 at the National Academy of Design , where she also worked on the living model. In 1875 several students, including Oakey, left the Academy and founded the Art Students League .

In 1872 and 1873 Oakey learned from John La Farge , whom she valued as a flower painter. At La Farge's suggestion, Oakey and other female painters organized their own exhibition at Cottier and Company in 1875 , which is seen as the counterpart to the Salon des Refusés and as the starting point of an American art movement. A few years later the Society of American Artists was founded.

In the middle of 1876 Oakey set out for Europe, where she studied couture with Thomas and, in addition to France, also visited Great Britain and Italy. In 1880 Oakey had established herself as a painter in America. In October of the same year she met Thomas Dewing and soon decided to marry the painter, who was six years her junior. Since 1883 she restricted her own work in favor of her husband and painted backgrounds in his works. Beginning in 1886, the couple spent the summers in Cornish and bought a house with a garden. Maria Dewing, who had painted portraits before and in the early days of her marriage, painted flower pictures here, which are among the best works of her career. With the Dewings at its center, Cornish developed into an artist colony . In 1894 the Dewings set out for Europe and in 1895 they set up shop in Giverny , where Maria Dewing began the painting “Garden in May”, her best-known work today. In the spring of 1907, the first solo exhibition took place at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . She died of a heart attack in her studio. For a long time, her works were valued higher on the art market than those of her more famous husband.

Works (selection)

  • Garden in May (1895)

  • Portrait of Dr. Charles Carroll Lee (1914)

  • Iris at Dawn, 1899, oil on canvas, 64.1 × 79.4 cm, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire
  • A Rose Garden, 1901, oil on canvas

literature

  • Oakey, Maria . In: Hermann Alexander Müller : Biographical Artist Lexicon. The most famous contemporaries in the field of fine arts of all countries with details of their works . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1882, p. 398. Digitized .
  • Oakey, Maria : In: General Artist Lexicon. Life and work of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller. Edited by Hans Wolfgang Singer . 3rd volume. 3. redesigned and supplementary edition. Literary publishing house Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1898, p. 324. Digitized

Web links

Commons : Maria Oakey Dewing  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susan A. Hobbs: Maria Oakey Dewing's flowers and figures ( Memento of August 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), from The Magazine Antiques of January 1, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Dewing, Maria Oakey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richards Oakey Dewing, Maria; Dewing, Maria; Oakey, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1927
Place of death new York