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Photography by Lee Stalsworth
Rose Garden
“It is easy to write, it is almost impossible to paint,” declared a seventeen-year-old Maria Oakey Dewing. Nevertheless, Dewing spent the rest of her life deeply committed to painting. Rose Garden was painted during the last summer she and her husband, artist Thomas Wilmer Dewing, spent in the rural artist colony of Cornish, New Hampshire, escaping the daily grind of the city. The way the flowers extend to the edge of the frame places the viewer in the thick of the garden with the artist.
ArtistMaria Oakey Dewing(1845-1927)
Date1901
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions39 1/2 x 55 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.
Signedl.l., in brown paint: Maria Oakey Dewing 1901
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2006.67
ClassificationPainting
Provenanceacquired from the Artist by Whitelaw Reid [1837-1912] and Elisabeth Mills Reid [d. 1931], New York, NY; to Estate of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, 1931; to (American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, New York, NY), May 2, 1934, lot 305; purchased by Mrs. J.W.S. Reid, 1934; (T.R. Baird), New York, NY; purchased by Private Collection, New York, 1976; to (Sotheby's, New York, NY), May 24, 2000, lot 18; purchased by Private Collection, U.S., 2000; to (Sotheby's, New York, NY), November 29, 2006, lot 40; purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2006
On ViewYes
This artwork's face covers about 301× the area of a tennis ball.Drawn to the same scale.
