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Maria Oakey Dewing - Garden in May

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Maria Oakey Dewing - Garden in May
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Artist: Maria Oakey Dewing - Title: Garden in May - Medium: Fine Art Giclee on Canvas - Image Size: Approximately 14.5 inches x 20 inches - Framed: Unframed on Unstretched Canvas - Biography: The small number of paintings by Dewing that have come down to us hovers around two dozen. Why so few? Many have been lost, but many more were simply never painted. In her 20s as an art student, Dewing was known as a maverick of the aesthetic movement, an avant-garde thinker and progressive author, one of the most promising painters of her generation. However, upon her marriage to fellow artist Thomas Wilmer Dewing in 1881, her artistic production more or less ceased for decades while she took on the domestic duties that her period expected of a wife and mother. This unequal, gender-based distribution of professional roles is common to a number of artistic couples in the nineteenth century. Still, while her oeuvre may be small, it is undeniably fervent. As Dewing is reported to have said to the writer Oscar Wilde, "I must paint pictures or die."