Catalogue entry

Bible Reading Aboard the Tegetthof
Catalogue no. 133
1925–26
Provincetown, MA
Oil on composition board
19 7/8 x 23 13/16 in. (50.5 x 60.5 cm)
Inscribed, signed, inscribed, dated lower right: "Tegethoff / E W Dickinson / Provincetown
1926"
Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art
Photo: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Notes

Notes: Painted in Provincetown, MA, 1925: December 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 1926; January 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, (journal). Inscribed on reverse: "P'town [Provincetown] 1926 [sic] / E W D / 26 x 24"".

See notes for lost companion piece, "Mass for the Tegetthoff," 1923-1924. Letter to R. Parmenter, December 27, 1965, refers first to the loss of "Mass for the Tegetthoff", then to "A less beautiful `Bible Reading in the Tegetthoff' . . . which has, however, a neat passage: the reader is enveloped in a suspended cylindrical curtain 1/2 way down his shins, & his ankles & feet are shown. The mizzen mast is shown and the break of the poop [deck at the stern] & its P & S [port & starboard] ladders all greatly foreshortened from a high station-point."

Provenance
Antoinette Dickinson Van Sickle
Mr. & Mrs. Ferdinand H. Davis
Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art
Exhibition History
1961 James Graham & Sons
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
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.
1967b PAA
Provincetown Art Association, Hawthorne Memorial Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson, August 3–September 4, 1967.
1968 Utica NY
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, 1968.
1972 Utica NY
Utica, New York, 1972.
1986 Skeneateles
Skeneateles, New York, 1986.
1986–88 Utica NY
Works from Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, Two Hundred Years of American Art, 1986–88.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Bible Reading Aboard the Tegetthof, 1925–26 (Catalogue no. 133)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=133 (accessed on July 30, 2026).