Edwin Dikinson
Paris Windows
(528)
1952
Paris, France
Oil on panel
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed top left: "E W Dickinson"
Inscribed, dated lower right: "Paris / 1952"
Inscribed, dated lower right: "Paris / 1952"
Private collection
Photo: Adam Hurwitz
Notes
Notes: Painted in Paris, France June 23, 24, 25, 26 (journal) from hotel window at 3, rue Bonaparte. To FD June 24."At a distance my piece looks just like a non-objective; up closer, it looks just like the side of a house." In 1958 painting was awarded the Benjamin Altman (landscape) prize by the National Academy of Design.
Provenance
Gardner & Ruth Jencks
Private collection
Exhibition History
1957–58 Cornell University:
Edwin Dickinson, Visiting Artist: An Exhibition of Paintings, 1912-1956
1965 Whitney:
Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, as "Windows, Paris"
1967b PAA:
Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson
1968–69 Venice Biennial:
The Figurative Tradition in Recent American Art: Edwin Dickinson
1976 PAAM:
Edwin Dickinson Retrospective
1980–81 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden:
Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes