The Gilded Age in American Art

Discussion Starters: Visual

What are the predominant colors?
Are the colors bright or subdued?
Dewing was known for his use of a soft, monochromatic color scheme.

Describe the quality of the lines.
Are they hard and distinct or soft and hazy?
Where does the figure end and the background begin?
Is the space deep or shallow?

Quiet and contemplative might be used to describe the mood. What other words would apply?

Dewing reduced the palette to a monochromatic color scheme and used effects of light and atmosphere that veiled the image to produce a soft hazy quality. Art historians called this style Tonalism.