Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Bill and Esther Sawyer
Catalogue no. 105
1921–22
Oil on panel
29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 61 cm)
Signed upper left: "E W Dickinson."
Private collection
Photo: Biff Henrich
Notes
Painting begun in Provincetown, MA, June 27, 1921, completed January 13, 1922, Buffalo, NY.
Portraits of son & daughter of M/M A.W.S. Journal: 1922, January 10, 12, 13.
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Ansley W. Sawyer
Private collection
Private collection
Exhibition History
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, 1927, as "Portrait of Bill and Esther Sawyer".
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
State University College at Buffalo, Charles Burchfield Center, Buffalo, New York, ART in the Buffalo Area: 1920-1930, April 19–September 27, 1970, as "Children's Portrait".
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.
Niagara Council of the Arts, Inc, Buscaglia-Castellani Art Gallery, Niagara University, Niagara Falls, New York, A Legacy of Friendship: Esther Hoyt Sawyer, Edwin W. Dickinson, Nicholas Vasilieff, May 23–June 21, 1981, as "Sonny and Sis".
State University College at Buffalo, Charles Burchfield Center, Buffalo, New York, One Hundred and Fifty Years of Portraiture in Western New York, December 8, 1981–January 12, 1982, as "Sonny & Sister".
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Bill and Esther Sawyer, 1921–22 (Catalogue no. 105)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=105 (accessed on July 29, 2026).