Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Frances Foley
Catalogue no. 153
1927
Provincetown, MA
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm)
Signed lower left: "E W Dickinson"
Inscribed above bottom: "PAT"
Inscribed above bottom: "PAT"
Photo: Babcock Galleries
Notes
Notes: Painted in Provincetown, MA, begun November 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. December 1, 2, 3, 4. 1928, January 15 "arranging work on Pat's portrait.", 16, 17,18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 30, 31, April 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, September 14, 17, 46 Pearl Street, (journal). To EHS, March 23, 1928, ". . . giving myself a three week lay-out on a large piece of drapery from a lay figure. The 40 50 portrait of Pat which I want to include in my group in Pittsburgh this fall."
Portrait of future wife of ED; they married 31 October 1928.
Provenance
Nicholas J. Nicholas, Jr. or Private ?
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.
Gilman Galleries, Chicago, Edwin Dickinson, Paintings, January 8– ? 1966.
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Edwin Dickinson Retrospective, August 14–September 7, 1976.
Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Mass, Sandwich, Massachusetts, Cape Cod as an Art Colony. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture of 20th Century Artists who have worked and are working on Cape Cod, April 30–October 16, 1977, as "Francis Foley".
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, Memorial Exhibition: Edwin Dickinson, Charles Eames, Eugene Francis Savage, Edward Durell Stone, Stow Wengenroth, November 19–December 30, 1979, as "Portrait of Frances Foley".
National Academy of Design Galleries, New York, Art Students League Benefit Sale, May 18–July 4, 1982, as "Frances Foley, 1927".
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Master Drawings from The Drawing Society's Membership, February 12–March 8, 1986.
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Edwin Dickinson In Provincetown 1912-1937, July 20–September 23, 2007.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Frances Foley, 1927 (Catalogue no. 153)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=153 (accessed on July 29, 2026).