Art, literature & historyLady in Green and Gray
1911
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61.3 × 50.8 cm (24 1/8 × 20 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1911.5
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Lady in Green and Gray — Thomas Wilmer Dewing. 1911.
Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 61.3 × 50.8 cm (24 1/8 × 20 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Thomas Wilmer Dewing began creating decorative paintings of women in interiors around 1886, using this subject to explore formal qualities of color and composition. Like the painter James McNeill Whistler, he was especially concerned with rendering subtle distinctions of hue and value. Although the sitters in Dewing’s interiors were intended to be anonymous, many of them were recognizable to contemporary viewers as his friends or lovers. The woman depicted in Lady in Green and Gray is Gertrude McNeill, an actress who frequently posed for the artist between 1911 and 1917.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.