TitleCharles Melville Dewey
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 25 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "Julia Dewey"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, May 11, 1904
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number348-P
Label TextThe Council declined to accept this portrait in confirmation of Charles Dewey's election as Associate when it was initially presented, on May 2, 1904. As his year to submit his qualifying portrait was about to expire, he instead was granted an extension in order to provide a work of acceptable quality. Apparently Dewey took serious exception to the Council's action, because attorneys' opinions of the illegality of the rejection were noted in Council minutes of May 11, 1904, when the portrait was accepted and Dewey's membership duly confirmed.
