1904, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, La Peche -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Boston-born and Paris-trained, Dewing is celebrated for his decorative paintings that express the "art-for-art's sake" impulse. This work is considered to be among his most symbolic. The painting is pervaded by nostalgia--possibly for a former love and neighbor in the artists' colony of Cornish, New Hampshire. It is the last landscape with dreamlike figures--haunted by personal meaning and intended for private absorption--that Dewing painted before turning to images of women in interiors, which defined his public profile toward the end of his life. The original frame was designed by the architect Stanford White, a close friend of the artist,
1904, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, La Peche -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Boston-born and Paris-trained, Dewing is celebrated for his decorative paintings that express the "art-for-art's sake" impulse. This work is considered to be among his most symbolic. The painting is pervaded by nostalgia--possibly for a former love and neighbor in the artists' colony of Cornish, New Hampshire. It is the last landscape with dreamlike figures--haunted by personal meaning and intended for private absorption--that Dewing painted before turning to images of women in interiors, which defined his public profile toward the end of his life. The original frame was designed by the architect Stanford White, a close friend of the artist,