Edwin Dikinson
Cows
(317)
1938
Lancieux, Brittany, France
Oil on canvas
23 x 28 in. (58.4 x 71.1 cm)
Signed on right: "E W Dickinson"
Dated top left: "1938"
Inscribed bottom right: "LANCIEUX"
Dated top left: "1938"
Inscribed bottom right: "LANCIEUX"
Photo: Babcock Galleries
Notes
Painted in Lancieux, Brittany, September 5 (journal). Letter to his father from Lancieux, September 6, 1938, "I made my dÈbut as a cattle-painter yesterday when I painted a cow-piece of 5 cows from 3 models."Provenance
Sheldon Dick
Artist
Private collection
Michael or Gilbert Scharf
Scharf Family Collection
Exhibition History
1939b Passedoit Gallery:
Drawings, Edwin W. Dickinson
1942 Chatham:
Work by Edwin Dickinson, as "Cows, Lancieux"
1965 Whitney:
Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective
1976 PAAM:
Edwin Dickinson Retrospective
1983 Hirschl & Adler Galleries:
Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940
1986 New York Studio School:
Founding Faculty of the New York Studio School
1992 Greenville:
Edwin Dickinson, Wallace Putnam and Richard Maury