Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Pine Tops
Catalogue no. 288
1938
Sanary-sur-Mer, France
Oil on canvas
23 x 28 in. (58.4 x 71.1 cm)
Dated, signed on right: "1938 E W Dickinson"
Inscribed on bottom left: "Sanary"
Inscribed on right: "too late"
Inscribed on bottom left: "Sanary"
Inscribed on right: "too late"
Photo: Babcock Galleries
Notes
Painted in Sanary-sur-Mer, France, February 12 (journal). Inscription "too late" indicates the light had changed too much to continue.
Provenance
Private collection
Scharf Family Collection
Exhibition History
Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, Paintings by Edwin W. Dickinson, April 11–30, 1938.
Art Students League, New York, 1949.
Cushman Gallery, Houston, 1958.
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.
American Academy & National Institute, New York, 1965.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965, as "Pine Tree Tops".
Provincetown Art Association, Hawthorne Memorial Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson, August 3–September 4, 1967.
American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, Paintings by Members, October 25–December 22, 1968.
Institute of Contemporary Art and the Weeden Gallery, 1970.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, November 12–December 30, 1983.
Alpha Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, March 9–April 3, 1985.
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Pine Tops, 1938 (Catalogue no. 288)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=288 (accessed on July 22, 2026).