Edwin Willard Deming Landscape Oil Painting, Early 20th century

Item Details

Edwin Willard Deming (American; 1860 – 1942)
Untitled (landscape), early 20th century
Oil painting on canvas
Signed “E.W. Deming” 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 and minor areas of paint loss throughout the edges of painting; small areas of craquelure and minor discoloration throughout the composition; under UV light examination no areas of inpainting were revealed; this canvas had been relined.

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Item #

ITMG273836