TitleReverie
Artist
Frederick Dielman
(American, 1847 - 1935)
Date1883
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 20 × 12 in.
Framed: 26 1/4 × 18 1/8 × 2 1/8 in.
SignedSigned at bottom right: "Frederick Dielman '83".
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, March 31, 1884
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number366-P
Label TextDielman's solitary woman, depicted in a forest interior, has many prototypes and contemporaries in the work of American artists active in the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s. Painters drawn to this subject included Eugene Benson, George Boughton, J. G. Brown, Winslow Homer, and William J. Hennessy. Alfred Trumble remarked that in Dielman's painting "One finds a certain gravity, but it is the gravity of a sympathetic and pensive man, entirely distinct from the melancholy of a sentimentalist, or the brooding morbidness of the sensationalist. . . . He paints the soul of woman as well as the outward form and substance."Collections
- 19th Century Highlights from the Collection
