Edwin Willard Deming Western Oil Painting of Figural Landscape

Item Details

Edwin Willard Deming (American; 1860 – 1942)
Untitled, early 20th century
Oil painting on canvas
Signed “E.W. Deming” to the lower left
Inscription including artist’s last name is present to the stretcher verso

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

- areas of fraying, minor teras and paint loss throughout the edges of canvas; some areas from canvas are detached from the stretcher and would benefit from securing; slight loss of tension throughout canvas; stretcher marks and minor paint loss throughout the canvas margins; minor areas of craquelure and discoloration throughout the composition; 0.5" puncture visible to the lower right margin of composition; under UV light examination several areas of inpainting are visible throughout; multiple restorations patches are visible to the canvas verso.

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Item #

ITMG463109