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Charles Melville Dewey (1849–1937) was an American
Charles Melville Dewey exhibition catalogs
19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters People from Lowville, New York 1849 births 1937 deaths Painters from New York City National Academy of Design members National Academy of Design alumni Tonalism 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters {{US-painter-1840s-stub
Charles Melville Dewey (1849–1937) was an American tonalist
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painter
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. He was born in Lowville, New York. Confined to his bed from his twelfth to his seventeenth year by a hip disease, he formed the poetic conception of nature
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which appears in his pictures. He studied in the schools of the National Academy of Design
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, New York
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(1874–76), and in Paris
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under Carolus-Duran
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, whom he assisted to paint a ceiling in the Louvre
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. In 1878 he returned to New York. Dewey's work has much highly individual, poetic sentiment and generally depicts subdued morning and evening effects. His landscapes in oil and water color are in many public galleries and private collections in the United States. Among his best are:
* ''Indian Summer'' and ''A November Evening'' (1904)
* ''Morning Bay of St.Ives'' and ''The Brook'' (1905)
* ''The Edge of the Forest'' (formerly Corcoran Gallery, Washington)
* ''The Harvest Moon'' and ''The Close of Day'' (National Gallery, Washington)
* ''The Gray Robe of Twilight'' (Buffalo Gallery)
* ''Old Fields'' (Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia)
He was made a member of the National Academy of Design in 1907.
He died at the Hotel Chelsea
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in Manhattan on January 17, 1937.
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Charles Melville Dewey exhibition catalogs
19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters People from Lowville, New York 1849 births 1937 deaths Painters from New York City National Academy of Design members National Academy of Design alumni Tonalism 19th-century American male artists 20th-century American male artists Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters {{US-painter-1840s-stub