Edwin Willard Deming Figural Oil Painting

Item Details

Edwin Willard Deming (American; 1860-1942)
Untitled, early 20th century
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to the lower right

Born in Ohio, Edwin Deming studied at the Art Students League in New York and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. He is known for his depictions of the American west having traveled and lived three decades with Native American tribes of the southwest and pacific northwest. In 1893, he was hired by Outing magazine to travel west and produce illustrations of Native American life with fellow artists DeCost Smith and Frederic Remington. Deming’s 1916 murals of Native American life are located in the American Museum of Natural History and in the Museum of the American Indian. Other institutions that have collected or displayed his work include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian Institution, among others.

Condition

- wear to edges of canvas; surface wear present to painting; discoloration of varnish; droplets of excess varnish; loss of paint to edges of canvas; billow to canvas; fraying to canvas edges; half inch tear to lower left of painting; stretcher frame visible through canvas.

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Item #

ITMG115036