Edwin Walter Dickinson (American, 1891-1978). Wellfleet Harbor, Blue Oval, 1942. Oil on canvas. 10 x 12 inches (25.4 x 3...

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Edwin Walter Dickinson (American, 1891-1978)
Wellfleet Harbor, Blue Oval, 1942
Oil on canvas
10 x 12 inches (25.4 x 30.5 cm)
Incised with signature, date, and title along the lower edge: Wellfleet E.W. Dickinson 1942
Dated and titled on the stretcher: 1941 / View of Wellfleet

Property from the Collection of Eleanor and Theodore Hughes Waddell, Dallas

PROVENANCE:
The artist;
Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey L. Waddell, New York, acquired from the above;
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hughes Waddell, New York and Dallas, by descent from the above;
By descent to the present owner, 2021.

EXHIBITED:
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1946.
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, "Edwin Dickinson," 1948.
American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, "Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members, Recipients of Honors, and Childe Hassam Fund Purchases," May 23-June 24, 1956 (as View toward Lieutenant Island);
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, "Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition," March 7-April 4, 1959, (as View of Wellfleet);
City Center, New York, 1959;
The Museum of Modern Art ,New York and elsewhere, "Edwin Dickinson," 1961-1963.

The present work is listed as Catalogue No. 437 in the online catalogue raisonné of the artist's works, https://edwindickinson.org/


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