Edwin Dikinson
Center M.E. Church Tower
(178)
1929
Provincetown, MA
Oil on canvas
36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm)
Signed, dated on bottom: "E W Dickinson / 1927 [sic]"
Signed, dated right: "E W Dickinson 1925 [sic]"
Signed, dated right: "E W Dickinson 1925 [sic]"
G. Nicholas Beckwith III
Photo: Babcock Galleries
Notes
Painted in Provincetown, MA, November 22, 23, 24 (journal). To EHS, November 27, 1929, "It was painted for the occasion on the top of a house (hence the position half way up the church) in low temperature last week," and sent to EHS. The Center Methodist Episcopal Church was the largest church on Cape Cod. When built in 1860 it was thought to be the largest Methodist church in America. It is frequently painted by Provincetown artists. It became the Chrysler Art Museum in 1958, and in 1976 was established as the Provincetown Heritage Museum.Provenance
Mrs. Ansley W. Sawyer
Private collection
G. Nicholas Beckwith III
Exhibition History
1938 Passedoit Gallery:
Paintings by Edwin W. Dickinson
1967b PAA:
Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson, as "Center Street Church Tower"
1976 PAAM:
Edwin Dickinson Retrospective, as "Center Street Church Tower"
1979 American Academy & National Institute:
Memorial Exhibition: Edwin Dickinson, Charles Eames, Eugene Francis Savage, Edward Durell Stone, Stow Wengenroth, as "Center Street Church Tower"
1980–81 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden:
Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes
1989b Babcock Galleries:
The Art Show