Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Frances Blaser, Purple Bodice
Catalogue no. 261
1937
Provincetown, MA
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Dated, signed on right: "1937 E W Dickinson"
Photo: Babcock Galleries
Notes
Painted in Provincetown, MA, August 28 (journal).
Provenance
Frances Dickinson
Sheldon Dick
Private collection
Exhibition History
Institute of Contemporary Art and the Weeden Gallery, 1970.
Wellfleet Art Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Special Exhibition: Edwin Dickinson, Painting-Drawing, 1911-1950, June 26–July 5, 1970.
Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and Arts, Barnstable, Massachusetts, Paintings and Drawings by Edwin Dickinson, July 12–August 1, 1970, as "Frances".
Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island, An Exhibition of Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, August 13–24, 1970.
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Edwin Dickinson Retrospective, August 14–September 7, 1976.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, November 12–December 30, 1983.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Master Drawings from The Drawing Society's Membership, February 12–March 8, 1986.
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, Edwin Dickinson, Wallace Putnam and Richard Maury, June 16–July 2, 1992.
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. "Frances Blaser, Purple Bodice, 1937 (Catalogue no. 261)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=261 (accessed on July 21, 2026).