The Mirror of the Woods

The Mirror of the Woods is an original painting realized by Charles Melville Dewey in the early 20th century.

Mixed colored oil painting on cardboard mounted on wood.

Titled and signed on the back.

This beautiful artwork represents a landscape in an autumn atmosphere.

Charles Melville Dewey was an American tonalist painter (American, Lowville, New York, 1849–1937).  He studied in the schools of the National Academy of Design, New York, 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 watercolor are in many public galleries and private collections in the United States.