Catalogue entry

Gas Tank
Catalogue no. 260
1937
Provincetown, MA
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Dated, signed lower left: "1937 / E W Dickinson"
Permanent Collection of The Art Students League of New York
Photo: Geoffrey Clements
Notes
Painted in Provincetown, MA, August 14 (journal), of Texaco tank on Aunt Sukey's Way at head of Brewster St. November 20, 1939, ED "(fixed 25/30 of the Texaco tank Aunt Sukey's Rd.)" (journal).
Exhibition History
1939 Rochester Memorial Art Gallery
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, April 6–30, 1939.
1957 PAA
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1957.
1967 Mountainville
Mountainville, New York, 1967, as Gas Tank.
1967–68 AFA
AFA, 1967–68, as Gas Tank.
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.
1987–90 ASL
Organized by Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, The Art Students League: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1987–90, as Gas Tank. Traveled to: Heckscher Museum, Huntington, September 12–November 1, 1987; University Art Gallery, SU at Alba, January 20–February 21, 1988; Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, April 15–May 30, 1988; Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, July 16–August 30, 1988; Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts, September 18–November 6, 1988; Everhart Museum of Art, Scranton, Pennsylvania, November 20–December 31, 1988; Tyler Art Gallery, SU at Oswego, January 29–March 25, 1989; Ruth E. Dowd Art Gallery, SU at Cortland, April 7–28, 1989; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, June 24–August 20, 1989; Metropolitan Life Insurance Gallery, New York, January 9–March 3, 1990; Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa, March 25–May 20, 1990.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Gas Tank, 1937 (Catalogue no. 260)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=260 (accessed on July 21, 2026).