Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Nude with White Scarf
Catalogue no. 129
1925
Provincetown, MA
Oil on composition board
36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm)
No inscriptions on obverse
Signed, inscribed, dated on reverse: "E W Dickinson / Provincetown / 1925 / Nude"
Signed, inscribed, dated on reverse: "E W Dickinson / Provincetown / 1925 / Nude"
Photo: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Notes
Painted in Provincetown, MA. Model was Helen Souza. ED note: "This young lady posed for me
many times over quite a long period and she is the model of the oil torso with the white handkerchief on the
head." She also posed for the foreground figure in "Composition with Still Life."
Provenance
Irma Rivers
unknown
(Graham)
Joseph H. Hirshhorn
Exhibition History
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961, as "Nude, ca. 1932".
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, as "Helen Souza, 1925" and reproduced in the catalogue as "Nude (Helen). Probably 1920's".
Smithsonian Institution, Inaugural Exhibition. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, October 4, 1974–September 15, 1975.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Nude with White Scarf, 1925 (Catalogue no. 129)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=129 (accessed on July 30, 2026).