Catalogue entry

Frances Dickinson on Mt. Mawson
Catalogue no. 255
1937
Provincetown, MA
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Dated, signed on left: "1937 E W Dickinson"
Anonymous (Copies of old images)
Notes
Painted in Provincetown, MA, August 4, on a dune (journal). ED and his friends called the dune Mt. Mawson in honor of Sir Douglas Mawson who organized the Australian Antarctic expedition of 1911. FD posed nude and her hips were badly sunburned.
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Ansley W. Sawyer
Artist
Sheldon Dick
Helen Dickinson Baldwin
Mr. & Mrs. Louis Sosland
Artist
Exhibition History
1968 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, Painting & Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Louis Sosland, November 3–December 1, 1968. Traveled to: Mulvane Art Center, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, November 3–December 1, 1968.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Frances Dickinson on Mt. Mawson, 1937 (Catalogue no. 255)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=255 (accessed on July 22, 2026).