Maria Oakey Dewing

Biography

Maria Oakey Dewing was an artist whose delicate paintings of flowers and landscapes reflected both technical mastery and deep affection for the natural world. Her canvases, suffused with luminous color, invited viewers to pause and admire the fragile truths of petals and light.

She rests in Mount Auburn Cemetery as someone whose creative spirit shed beauty on every room she entered and whose legacy continues in the gentle works she left behind.