Catalogue entry

Cottage Porch, Peaked Hill
Catalogue no. 203
1932
Provincetown, MA
Oil on canvas
26 1/8 x 30 1/8 in. (66.4 x 76.5 cm)
Dated, signed on bottom: "1932 E W Dickinson"
Inscribed lower left: "HELEN"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
Photo: The Museum of Modern Art
Notes
Painted in Provincetown, MA, from the Peaked Hill dunes. ED note:"In the spring of `32 we hired a horse and wagon and driver which carried our gear for a months stay in a small cottage named 'Seasation.'" "HELEN" is ED's daughter.
Exhibition History
1933 PAA
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1933, as "View from Peaked Hill".
1953 Orleans
Orleans, Massachusetts, 1953.
1955b PAA
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1955, as "Cottage Window".
1957 Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, 1957.
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 "Peaked Hill Bars".
1958 Cushman Gallery
Cushman Gallery, Houston, 1958.
1959 Brandeis University
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1959.
1959 PAA
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1959, as "Cottage Porch".
1960 Pennsylvania Academy
Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, 1960, as "Cottage Porch.
1961 James Graham & Sons
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
1962 MoMA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962.
1963–64 National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1963–64.
1965 Whitney
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
1968–69 Venice Biennial
XXXIV International Biennial Exhibition of Art, Venice, Italy, The Figurative Tradition in Recent American Art: Edwin Dickinson, June 22–October 20, 1968. Traveled to: National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., December 19, 1968–February 2, 1969; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 17, 1969.
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.
1983 Hirschl & Adler Galleries
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, November 12–December 30, 1983.
2007 PAAM
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Edwin Dickinson In Provincetown 1912-1937, July 20–September 23, 2007.
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Cottage Porch, Peaked Hill, 1932 (Catalogue no. 203)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=203 (accessed on July 27, 2026).