Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Rose and Sextant
Catalogue no. 1022
1943
Wellfleet, MA
Pencil on paper
8 5/8 x 11 7/8 in. (21.9 x 30.2 cm)
Dated, signed lower left: "1943 E W Dickinson"
Private collection
Photo: Adam Hurwitz
Notes
Drawn in Wellfleet, MA. ED was fond of artificial roses and the sextant was his own.
Pl. 38, Goodrich, "Drawings of Edwin Dickinson."
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Gardner Jencks (Ruth Pearl)
Private collection
Exhibition History
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson, 1961–63. Traveled to: Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee, November 15, 1961; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, January 5, 1962; Chatham College, Pittsburgh, February 5, 1962; University of Texas, Austin, Texas, May 8, 1962; Art Center of La Jolla, La Jolla, California, June 22, 1962; Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 7, 1962; Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, October 15, 1962; Quincy Art Club, Quincy, Illinois, November 20, 1962; Telfer Academy of Arts and Science, Savannah, Georgia, January 7, 1963; Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, Delaware, February 15, 1963; University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, April 2, 1963; Madison Art Association, Madison, Wisconsin, May 8, 1963.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
Provincetown Art Association, Hawthorne Memorial Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson, August 3–September 4, 1967.
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Rose and Sextant, 1943 (Catalogue no. 1022)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1022 (accessed on July 16, 2026).