Edwin W. Deming Gouache Painting
Item Details
Edwin Willard Deming (American; 1860- 1942)
Untitled, early 20th century
Gouache painting on paperboard
Signed to the lower left
Presented under glass in a wooden frame
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 frame; dust and accretions present to glass and frame; wear to corners of frame.
Dimensions
- measures frame; visible image measures 17.5" W x 23.5" H.
Item #
18DCC659-1655
