Catalogue entry

Rising Tide, The Weir
Alternate title: Rising Tide
Catalogue no. 200
1931
North Truro, MA
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
Signed, dated lower right: "E W Dickinson / 29 May 1931"
Private collection
Photo: Biff Henrich
Notes
Painted in North Truro, MA, May 29 (journal) at Herring Cove, (journal). To EHS/AWS, April 13, 1932, "The 'Rising Tide' was intended for you if you liked it; I am much pleased that you do. It is looking across Cape Cod Bay from the west coast of the Cape;"
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Ansley W. Sawyer
Ansley W. Sawyer, Jr.
Private collection
Private collection
Exhibition History
1931 PAA
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1931, as "Rising Tide".
1938 Passedoit Gallery
Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, Paintings by Edwin W. Dickinson, April 11–30, 1938, as Rising Tide.
1957–58 Cornell University
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 "Rising Tide".
1958 Cushman Gallery
Cushman Gallery, Houston, 1958.
1980–81 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes, September 18, 1980–December 14, 1981, as "Rising Tide".
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Rising Tide, The Weir, 1931 (Catalogue no. 200)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=200 (accessed on July 27, 2026).