Winged Allegorical Figure
Artist
Thomas Wilmer Dewing
American, 1851–1938
Datecirca 1888
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions56 1/8 x 21 1/2 in. (142.6 x 54.6 cm)
Frame: 65 3/8 x 31 1/4 in. (166.1 x 79.4 cm)
Frame: 65 3/8 x 31 1/4 in. (166.1 x 79.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of John Gellatly
Object numberG.28.4.1
On View
On view[1[ Probably purchased from artist.
Published ReferencesCatalogue of the Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York (New York: Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 1888), listed no. 323 (as A Decoration, Winged Allegorical Figure, lent by John Gellatly).
Roger Riordan, “The Architectural League Exhibitions,” Art Amateur 20 (January 1889), 29.
"Art Notes," Art Interchange 22 (January 19, 1889), 18.
An Exhibition of Paintings and Other Works of Art Left as a Bequest to the Society by the late Robert F. Phifer (brochure) (Raleigh: North Carolina State Art Society, 1929), listed among "First Pictures Given North Carolina State Art Society," no. 57.
Susan Hobbs, The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured (exhibition catalogue) (Brooklyn: The BrooklynMuseum of Art, 1996), cat. no. 12, discussed 105-06, illus. (color ) 105.
John W. Coffey, entry for Winged Allegorical Figure, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 432, illus. (color) 433.
Laura Fravel, "Obsession: John Gellatly's American Collection," in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 2012), mentioned and illus. (color) 14.
Susan A. Hobbs; with Shoshanna Abeles, Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty into Art, a Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 1, Oils (The Thomas Wilmer Dewing Catalogue Raisonné, in association with Yale University Press, 2018), no. 48, discussed 152–153, illus. (color) 152, pl. 48.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, "Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York," December 24, 1888-January 12, 1889, no. 323 (as A Decoration, Winged Allegorical Figure, lent by John Gellatly).
Raleigh, NC, Sir Walter Hotel, (NC State Art Society gallery), 1929, no. 57.
Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Museum, "The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured," March 21-June 9, 1996; Washington, DC, National Museum of American Art, July 19-October 14, 1996; Detroit, MI, The Detroit Institute of Arts, November 9, 1996-January 19, 1997, no. 12 (as Winged Figure), illus. (color).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Sculptor of the Gilded Age," February 23-May 11, 2003.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Visionary," October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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