Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Ulysses, Oh Cissy!
Catalogue no. 302
1938
Lancieux, Brittany, France
Oil on canvas
23 3/8 x 28 7/8 in. (59.4 x 73.3 cm)
Signed, inscribed, dated on left:
"E W Dickinson / LANCIEUX 1938"
"E W Dickinson / LANCIEUX 1938"
Photo: Babcock Galleries
Notes
Painted in Lancieux, Brittany, France, July 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 (journal), upstairs in Helen's room in the
Dickinson's rented farm house. In 1938 Journal ED referred to it as "Composition;" on back of an old photo
it was called "Unfinished Girl in Purple" and "Illustration for Ulysses." In Joyce's Ulysses, Cissy was one
of the two girls with Gerty McCaffrey. FD was reading Ulysses aloud in the in the evenings p. 360.
June 18, 1939, in Sheldrake, painted on 20F, girl in purple, from Lancieux.
Provenance
Helen Dickinson Baldwin
Private collection
Scharf Family Collection
Exhibition History
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961, as "Ulysses".
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
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.
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Ulysses, Oh Cissy!, 1938 (Catalogue no. 302)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=302 (accessed on July 23, 2026).