Nude with White Scarf

(129)

1925

Provincetown, MA

Oil on composition board

36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm)

No inscriptions on obverse
Signed, inscribed, dated on reverse: "E W Dickinson / Provincetown / 1925 / Nude"

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966

Photo: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Notes

Painted in Provincetown, MA. Model was Helen Souza. ED note: "This young lady posed for me many times over quite a long period and she is the model of the oil torso with the white handkerchief on the head." She also posed for the foreground figure in "Composition with Still Life."

Provenance

Irma Rivers

unknown

(Graham)

Joseph H. Hirshhorn

Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Exhibition History

1961 James Graham & Sons: Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, as "Nude, ca. 1932"

1961–63 MoMA: Edwin Dickinson

1965 Whitney: Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, as "Helen Souza, 1925" and reproduced in the catalogue as "Nude (Helen). Probably 1920's"

1974–75 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden