Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
The Finger Lakes
Catalogue no. 353
1940
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 28 1/2 in. (59.7 x 72.4 cm)
Signed on right: "E W Dickinson"
Deborah and Edward Shein
Second Street Photographic
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, January 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, February 1, 2, 5, 6, "[24/29 of Sheldrake
('July 4th') in much better shape.]", 7 (rose), 14 (rose), 15 (rose), 16 (journal), in the east room of the house.
COH: "So, this piece was done from another one. I had the other one before me when I did this.""I took
two canvases, put them together, and added the rose which was done from nature (it was a blue one), and I
added the balloon, . . .And . . . I added this right hand section.""The reason I put in the balloon was just a
little capriciousness. . . . When I was five, . . . I had been taken . . . [to] a recreation park, and once a year
there was a balloon ascension there. . . . The balloon ascension I associaed with that lake, . . . I wanted
something in, and I like a balloon." Asked why he painted the rose blue, "I suppose I thought it would look
better." 165, 166, 167.
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey L. Waddell (Catherine Hughes)
Theodore Hughes Waddell
Deborah and Edward Shein
Exhibition History
Passedoit Gallery, New York, Paintings, Edwin Dickinson, April 8–27, 1940.
Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, 1944.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 15 Americans, April 8–June 22, 1952.
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, March 7–April 4, 1959.
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The 1930's: Painting & Sculpture in America, October 15–December 1, 1968.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "The Finger Lakes, 1940 (Catalogue no. 353)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=353 (accessed on July 25, 2026).