Garden in May
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Name
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Garden in May
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Summary
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Maria Oakey Dewing and her husband, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, spent the summers from 1885 to 1905 at an artists' colony in Cornish, New Hampshire. There they cultivated the large garden that Maria studied and painted. In Garden in May [SAAM, 1929.6.26] the viewer has a "worm's-eye view" of a bed of carnations and roses. Dewing places the viewer among the living stems and blossoms that she knew so well. She has cropped a section from the larger bed for intense study, as if she had held a frame in front of the garden and painted only what fit in the rectangle. (Source: SAAM database)
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Date
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1895
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Dimensions
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23 5⁄8 x 32 1⁄2 in. (60.1 x 82.5 cm.)
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Provenance
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Gift of John Gellatly
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Identifier
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1929.6.26
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Rights
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