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Music

Thomas Wilmer Dewing

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Music is one section of a two-panel decorative screen inspired by Japanese furnishings popularized by the Aesthetic Movement. Thomas Wilmer Dewing’s musician, dressed in Grecian robes and surrounded by an idyllic landscape, may be read as an allegory of nature’s soothing effect on the body and soul. For the wealthy businessmen who were Dewing’s greatest patrons, such ethereal scenes may have offered a reprieve from the demands of modern industry.

Caption

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American, 1851–1938). Music, ca. 1896–1900. Oil on canvas mounted on composition board and wooden panel, 51 7/16 × 20 7/16 in. (130.7 × 51.9 cm) frame: 60 1/2 × 29 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (153.7 × 74.9 × 4.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Martin Horwitz, 75.206. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Music

Date

ca. 1896–1900

Medium

Oil on canvas mounted on composition board and wooden panel

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

51 7/16 × 20 7/16 in. (130.7 × 51.9 cm) frame: 60 1/2 × 29 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (153.7 × 74.9 × 4.4 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower left: "T. W. Dewing"

Credit Line

Gift of Martin Horwitz

Accession Number

75.206

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Artists and makers

Thomas Wilmer Dewing

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