Catalogue entry

Backstop, Highland
Catalogue no. 256
1937
North Truro, MA
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Signed lower left: "E W Dickinson"
Dated, inscribed on bottom: "1937 Highland"
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College
Photo: Eric Mitchell
Notes
Painted in North Truro, MA, August 6, near Highland Light, painted "backstop posts," (journal).
Provenance
Frances Dickinson
Dr. Milton Gardner
Unknown
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Dietrich II
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College
Exhibition History
1961 James Graham & Sons
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
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.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Backstop, Highland, 1937 (Catalogue no. 256)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=256 (accessed on July 22, 2026).