Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Geissbuhler Head
Catalogue no. 1012
1942
Wellfleet, MA
Pencil on paper
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Inscribed, numbered, dated, signed lower right: "from a head by / Arnold Geissbuhler / 34 1942
E W Dickinson"
Inscribed on right: "drawing on reverse"
E W Dickinson"
Inscribed on right: "drawing on reverse"
Notes
Notes: Drawn in Wellfleet, MA, June 3 (journal), from a plaster sculpture given ED April 5 (journal) by Geissbuhler. ED notes explain "drawing on reverse"."On reverse a drawing made for an article on the Roller Gear, my only illustration, for an article by Dr. Richard Parmenter in Yachting years ago." To AWS & EHS, January 3 & 15, 1938, refers to the "Yachting" illustration as has seen the roller gear in operation for the first time, in the Sanary harbor.
[ The sculpture is 12" tall, 8 1/4" wide, 12" deep, and is owned by Mr. & Mrs. Breverman.] for fig. of the actual head.
Provenance
Harvey and Deborah Breverman
Exhibition History
State University College at Buffalo, Charles Burchfield Center, Buffalo, New York, First Decade, November 14, 1976–January 13, 1977.
State University College at Buffalo, Charles Burchfield Center, Buffalo, New York, Tribute Exhibition: Edwin Dickinson, September 18, 1977–November 6, 1978. Traveled to: Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York, January 14–February 19, 1978; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, November 16–December 23, 1978.
Rodman Hall Arts Centre, Ontario, Canada, 20th Century Drawings from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Breverman, September 4–26, 1982.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Geissbuhler Head, 1942 (Catalogue no. 1012)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1012 (accessed on July 16, 2026).