Head of a Girl, c. 1909

Not on View

Medium

silverpoint on prepared wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 19.05 × 17.15 cm (7 1/2 × 6 3/4 in.)

sheet: 34.61 × 29.85 cm (13 5/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee)

Accession Number

2015.19.498

Artists / Makers

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (artist) American, 1851 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in silverpoint: T W DEWING

Provenance

(Montross Gallery, New York); James Parmelee, Washington, DC, 1909; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1941; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Parmelee, James

Exhibition History

1963: Thomas W. Dewing, Durlacher Bros., New York, 1963, no. 39

1983: American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

1986: American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 43-44, no. 23, repro

2015: Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2015

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 98, no. 639.