Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Tom Never's Head
Catalogue no. 216
1933
Oil on canvas
15 1/4 x 25 3/8 in. (38.7 x 64.5 cm)
Signed, inscribed, dated on right: "E W Dickinson Nantucket 1935 [sic]"
Inscribed lower left: "Tom Never's Head"
Inscribed lower left: "Tom Never's Head"
Photo: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Notes
Painted on Nantucket Island, August 3, of a headland on the south coast, (journal). Painting was
signed and dated by ED, in ink, many years later and the date mis-remembered. Painting cut down by the
artist from 26x30".
Provenance
Helen Dickinson Baldwin
Joseph H. Hirshhorn
Exhibition History
Cape Cod Art Association, Hyannis, Massachusetts, 1961.
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961, as "South Coast, Nantucket Island, 1933".
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Edwin Dickinson, November 29–December 31, 1961.
Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York, 1963.
Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes, September 18, 1980–December 14, 1981.
National Academy of Design Galleries, New York, Art Students League Benefit Sale, May 18–July 4, 1982, dated 1935.
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Tom Never's Head, 1933 (Catalogue no. 216)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=216 (accessed on July 27, 2026).