Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Rocks & Water, Port Issol, West Side
Catalogue no. 292
1938
Oil on canvas
29 x 36 1/4 in. (73.7 x 92.1 cm)
Dated, signed on right: "1938 E W Dickinson"
Inscribed on left: "Port Issol"
Inscribed on left: "Port Issol"
Gilbert Scharf
Notes
Painted at rock of Port Issol, February 23 (journal), west of Sanary-sur-Mer. ED note: "It was painted where there was barely room - a little bit as though it was the side of a small cliff. There was room enough for the easel and my feet, but no more and it is a pretty good sized oil on canvas. Since the amount of room was very small, one's movements were restricted very much and I suppose I looked at nature by turning my head sideways. It was right over deep water in the Mediterranean - water boiling around amongst some rocks."
Provenance
Helen Dickinson Baldwin
Gilbert Scharf
Exhibition History
Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, Paintings by Edwin W. Dickinson, April 11–30, 1938.
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, April 6–30, 1939.
Art Museum of Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, Exhibition of Paintings by Edwin W. Dickinson, October 15–November 5, 1940, as "Rocks and Water, Port Issol".
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Peale Galleries, Philadelphia, Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, April 21–May 29, 1966, as "Rocks and Water, Port Issol".
Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York, Paintings and Drawings by Edwin Dickinson, June 12–July 12, 1966.
Pratt Institute Manhattan Center, Brooklyn, New York, Paintings and Drawings by Edwin Dickinson, March 10–26, 1970.
Babcock Galleries, New York, Edwin Dickinson, A Vision of Coast and Sea, May 19–June 29, 1990, as "Rocks & Water, Port Issol".
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, Edwin Dickinson, Wallace Putnam and Richard Maury, June 16–July 2, 1992.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Rocks & Water, Port Issol, West Side, 1938 (Catalogue no. 292)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=292 (accessed on July 22, 2026).