Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Self Portrait in Fur Cap
Catalogue no. 27
1914
Provincetown, MA
Oil on composition board
22 1/8 x 20 1/8 in. (56.2 x 51.1 cm)
No inscriptions on obverse
John O'Connor
Photo: Babcock Galleries
Notes
Painted in Provincetown, MA. ED note: Self-Portrait in fur cap Provincetown
winter 1913-14 (Capt. Lavender's [sic] Studio). He wears his "father's fur cap Amherst 1875-1879
`[Edwin Henry Dickinson]." To EHS, October 15, 1940. At bottom is a blue smock EHS made for him.
Provenance
Mrs. Ansley W. Sawyer
Helen Dickinson Baldwin
Scharf Family Collection
John O'Connor
Exhibition History
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson, 1961–63. Traveled to: Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee, November 15, 1961; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, January 5, 1962; Chatham College, Pittsburgh, February 5, 1962; University of Texas, Austin, Texas, May 8, 1962; Art Center of La Jolla, La Jolla, California, June 22, 1962; Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 7, 1962; Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, October 15, 1962; Quincy Art Club, Quincy, Illinois, November 20, 1962; Telfer Academy of Arts and Science, Savannah, Georgia, January 7, 1963; Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, Delaware, February 15, 1963; University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, April 2, 1963; Madison Art Association, Madison, Wisconsin, May 8, 1963.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1964.
National Academy of Design Galleries, New York, Art Students League Benefit Sale, May 18–July 4, 1982.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, November 12–December 30, 1983.
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Edwin Dickinson In Provincetown 1912-1937, July 20–September 23, 2007.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Self Portrait in Fur Cap, 1914 (Catalogue no. 27)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=27 (accessed on July 26, 2026).