Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Rock of Port Issol, West Side
Catalogue no. 279
1938
Oil on canvas
23 3/4 x 28 3/4 in. (60.3 x 73 cm)
Signed on right: "E W Dickinson"
Inscribed upper left: "Port Issol"
Inscribed upper left: "Port Issol"
Photo: Addison Gallery of American Art
Notes
Painted at rock of Port Issol, January 22 (journal).
Provenance
Sheldon Dick
Artist
Edith Jay
Dr. James Jay
Exhibition History
Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, Paintings by Edwin W. Dickinson, April 11–30, 1938.
Corcoran, Washington, D.C., 1939.
Art Museum of Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Exhibition of Paintings by Edwin W. Dickinson, October 15–November 5, 1940.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 1950.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1953.
Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Ithica, Edwin Dickinson, Visiting Artist: An Exhibition of Paintings, 1912-1956, December 10, 1957–January 10, 1958.
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, March 7–April 4, 1959.
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.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
XXXIV International Biennial Exhibition of Art, Venice, Italy, The Figurative Tradition in Recent American Art: Edwin Dickinson, June 22–October 20, 1968. Traveled to: National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., December 19, 1968–February 2, 1969; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 17, 1969.
Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, Point of View: Landscapes from the Addison Collection, October 16–December 20, 1992.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Rock of Port Issol, West Side, 1938 (Catalogue no. 279)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=279 (accessed on July 21, 2026).