Charles Melville Dewey
(1849-1937)
American artist
menu
Add to my lists
About
Jump to
Charles Melville Dewey (1849–1937) was an American tonalist painter. 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 which appears in his pictures. He studied in the schools of the National Academy of Design, New York (1874–76), and in Paris under Carolus-Duran, whom he assisted to paint a ceiling in the Louvre. 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:
Key details
edit section
| Born |
1849 Lowville, New York
|
| Died |
1937 (aged 87) New York, New York
|
| Zodiac | |
| Tags | Add tag |
Family members
Parents
0
Add parent
Siblings
0
Add sibling
Other family members
0
Add family member
Connections
Friends & associates
Add friend/associate
Charles Melville Dewey dating history
0Children
0No records found.
Scholars
Please be the first to contribute to this page!
Family
Parents
0
Add parent
Siblings
0
Add sibling
Children
0
Add child
Other family members
0
Add family member
Friends & associates
Add friend/associate
Missing information for Charles Melville Dewey
- missing height
- missing hair color
- missing eye color
- missing ethnicity
- add banner photo
- add photos to gallery
Lists
29
Facts and figures
8
Similar profiles
10
Activity
Top contributors today
Be the first to contribute today
Tags
Featured contributors
Couples by country
USA · UK · Canada · Australia · France · Germany · India · China · South Korea · Japan · Spain · MexicoCouples by decade
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s · 2000s · 2010s · 2020sADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
