Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Coast at Wellfleet with a Wreck
Alternate title: Coast at Wellfleet
Catalogue no. 188
1930
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Signed, inscribed, dated on bottom:
"E. W. Dickinson / Wellfleet 1930"
"E. W. Dickinson / Wellfleet 1930"
Private collection
Photo: Biff Henricks
Notes
Painted at Wellfleet, MA. To Mrs. William B. Hoyt, June 9, 1943,"A dismantled schooner is near
the top of the painting."
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Ansley W. Sawyer
Mrs. William Ballard Hoyt
Private collection
Private collection
Exhibition History
Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, 1931, as "Coast at Wellfleet: Massachusetts".
Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, Paintings by Edwin W. Dickinson, April 11–30, 1938, as Coast at Wellfleet.
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, April 6–30, 1939.
Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Ithica, Edwin Dickinson, Visiting Artist: An Exhibition of Paintings, 1912-1956, December 10, 1957–January 10, 1958, as "Coast at Wellfleet".
Cushman Gallery, Houston, 1958.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965, as "Coast at Wellfleet, with Wreck".
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Coast at Wellfleet with a Wreck, 1930 (Catalogue no. 188)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=188 (accessed on July 28, 2026).