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@mdstamper.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:33 PM

“Summer” by Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American) - Oil on canvas / 1890 - Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Connecticut) #WomenInArt #YaleUniversityArtGallery #Tonalism #AmericanArt #art #artText #yale #1890sArt #ThomasDewing #ThomasWilmerDewing #summer #arte #AmericanArtist #YaleUniversity

Four young women move hand in hand across a dark green landscape while a fifth, dressed in vivid red, sits at the right playing a harp. Their long evening gowns of muted gold, rose, brown, pink, and red form a sequence of color against a shadowed ground. Dewing elongates their bodies and simplifies their faces, so the women are less individual portraits than a measured procession. Slender birch trunks rise behind them in pale verticals, echoing the women’s upright forms, while their linked arms create a gentle horizontal rhythm that carries the eye across the canvas.

Painted in Cornish, New Hampshire, in 1890, “Summer” belongs to the dreamy, atmospheric mode for which American artist Thomas Wilmer Dewing became known. Yale notes his interest in James McNeill Whistler, Asian design, and music, all of which help explain the painting’s unusual stillness and sense of arrangement. The women’s movement has often been described not as an energetic dance, but a controlled sequence of poses. The harp reinforces the musical structure of the composition, suggesting that Dewing was thinking about harmony not only as sound, but as an organizing principle for color, line, and spacing.

The scene is idealized, but its women are not simply decorative accessories to the landscape. Their linked bodies command the center of the picture, and their coordinated movement gives them a collective presence. At the same time, Dewing withholds narrative clues like who they are, where they are going, or what relation binds them. That ambiguity allows the painting to hover between social scene, allegory, and dream. In the rapidly industrializing America of the late 19th century, such a cultivated, suspended world would have felt deliberately removed from modern urban life.

“Summer” ultimately depends less on story than on the tension between motion and stillness with women moving through a landscape that seems almost motionless while their bodies turn music into a line.

@valent6228.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 12:28 AM

Yosemite (Forest Fire in Moonlit Landscape) (1881) - Jules Tavernier (1844–1889) #romantic_landscape #sublime #luminism #tonalism

@christinecode.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 5:16 PM

“The Horizon’s Bare Finality” oil, 24” x 30”

Available at Dervilia Art & Design in Saskatoon.

#sunsetpainting #tonalism #landscapepainting #skypainters #canadianartist

@hammie-earl.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 10:51 PM

Alexander Helwig Wyant (January 11, 1836 – November 29, 1892) was an #American #landscape #painter.
#Hudson-River-School, with its direct pastoral narrative, but
evolved into the more moody and shadowy #Tonalism.

@valent6228.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 2:05 AM

Still Life with Flowers - Matilda Browne (1869–1947) #american_impressionism #tonalism #still_life

@jaccohinke.wsocial.eu Sep 30, 2026, 2:43 PM

Layers of Doubt explores how we perceive. Layers of colour and haze reveal and conceal the landscape at the same time. What seems recognisable remains suspended between form, memory and uncertainty.
#LayersOfDoubt #ContemporaryArt #Painting #Tonalism #OilPainting

@valent6228.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 11:42 AM

Beware the Beautiful Witch (1913) - Power O’Malley (1870-1946) #illustration_art #tonalism #romantic_symbolism

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@valent6228.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 2:19 AM

A Rose (1907) - Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851–1912) #academic_realism #tonalism #portrait

@valent6228.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 10:06 AM

Young Woman in Kimono (c.1901) - Alfred Henry Maurer (1868–1932) #japonisme #aestheticism #tonalism #genre_painting

@valent6228.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 3:28 AM

Fifth Avenue at Twilight (c.1910) - Lowell Birge Harrison (1854–1929) #tonalism #urban_landscape

@valent6228.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 5:12 AM

Summer (c.1890) - Thomas Dewing (1851–1938) #tonalism #landscape

@valent6228.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 3:17 PM

Night Landscape with a River (c.1646) - Aert van der Neer (1604–1677) #baroque #tonalism #nocturne

@valent6228.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 2:59 AM

Stevenson Memorial (1903) - Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921) #american_renaissance #symbolism #tonalism #allegorical_painting

@firstamendmentgirl.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 11:54 PM

Palace of Fontainebleau by Violet Oakley,
Undated, Woodmere (Philadelphia, PA)

#ArtHistory #ModernArt #Impressionism #Tonalism

The surface's soft diffusion anchors the scene in a hazy atmosphere. A formal edifice, its facades articulated by pale light and shadow, dominates the central space. Distant wings of the palace recede, forming a layered backdrop against a muted sky. A cluster of verdant foliage provides a single chromatic counterpoint to the pervasive blue tonality The dense application of chalk marks or the upper stories builds a solidity that contrasts with the softer, feathery strokes defining the surrounding landscape. This textural variation establishes the architectural presence as a distinct entity within the enveloping ether. These subtle
gradations and the receding architectural elements evoke a contemplative stillness a mood that resonates with the historic grandeur of the Fontainebleau estate. The overall composition invites a prolonged gaze, a slow discovery of form within the diffused light. The artist's signature, a flourish of red, punctuates the lower right corner, a bold statement aqainst the prevailing quietude. The sketch captures a moment of transient light, transforming stone and sky into a unified atmospheric presence.

@valent6228.bsky.social Sep 5, 2026, 4:32 PM

Vanity - Jules R. Mersfelder (1865–1937) #tonalism #symbolism #belle_epoque #portrait

@valent6228.bsky.social Sep 3, 2026, 2:54 AM

A West Wind - George Faulkner Wetherbee (1851–1920) #tonalism #american_impressionism #figurative_art