Catalogue entry

Tekla Torm Off Algiers
Catalogue no. 1098
1959
the Mediterranean
Pencil on paper
9 x 11 1/2 in. (22.9 x 29.2 cm)
Signed on left: "E W Dickinson"
Dated below signature: "1959"
Inscribed upper right: "Off Algiers"
Private collection
Photo: Balthazar Korab
Notes

Notes: Drawn in the Mediterranean on board the M/S Tekla Torm. ED note: " . . . looking down & aft from boat deck Starboard side" (journal). The strongly angled structures are life boat davits.

Pl. 52, Goodrich, "Drawings of EdwinDickinson."

Provenance
Ellizabeth Hughes Gossett (Mrs. William T.);
Private collection
Exhibition History
1961–63 MoMA
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.
1965 Whitney
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965, as "Off Algiers, Tekla Torm".
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Tekla Torm Off Algiers, 1959 (Catalogue no. 1098)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1098 (accessed on July 22, 2026).