Catalogue entry

Bulkhead Brace
Catalogue no. 19
1913
Provincetown, MA
Oil on composition board
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed, dated upper left: "E W Dickinson / 14 [sic]"
Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Caldwell, Jr.
Photo: Robert A. Baldwin
Notes
Painted in Provincetown, MA, Hawthorne class. ED note: "It was the first piece I signed and was done in 1913." In class Hawthorne commented, "I think you will become an interesting figure in American art." A bulkhead is a barrier built to hold back sea or lake water.
Provenance
Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Caldwell, Jr.
Exhibition History
1973c PAAM
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, The Sea, August 24–September 2, 1973, as "Beach Shore".
2007 PAAM
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. "Bulkhead Brace, 1913 (Catalogue no. 19)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=19 (accessed on July 25, 2026).