Mayo's Beach from Indian Neck

(526)
1951
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on panel
12 1/2 x 16 1/8 in. (31.8 x 41 cm)
Signed top left: "E W Dickinson"
Dated on bottom: "1951"
Inscribed on left: "SIMBA"

Notes

Painted in Wellfleet, MA, August 2 (journal). Painting also titled "Simba" and "Three in One." Simba was the name of ECD's sailboat. ED note: it a "forerunner to the oil `South Wellfleet Inn.'""N.W. wind slanting horizon downward toward right." Journal noted August 2, 1951: "painted a 16/12 oval `3 in 1' looking NNW"

Provenance

Mr. & Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Exhibition History

1951 ASL: Diamond Jubilee
1954 Stable Gallery: Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, as "Simba"
1958 Cushman Gallery: as "Simba"
1961 James Graham & Sons: Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, as "Mayo's Beach from Indian Neck"
1965 Whitney: Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, as "Simba"