Catalogue entry

Artist's Hand Holding Children's Drawings
Catalogue no. 354
1940
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
23 x 20 in. (58.4 x 50.8 cm)
Signed on right: "E W Dickinson"
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, bequest of Daniel W. Dietrich II
Photo: Eric Mitchell
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, February 13 (canvas stretched), 17, 18, 19, 20, March 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 (journal), in make-shift studio upstairs. ED's hand holds drawings of Wellfleet school bus with French flags by Constant, and the beach at Lancieux by Helen.
Provenance
Helen Dickinson Baldwin
Rebecca Hannum
unknown
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Dietrich II
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, bequest of Daniel W. Dietrich II,
Exhibition History
1947b PAA
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1947.
1962 San Francisco
San Francisco, 1962.
1965 Whitney
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
1982b NAD
National Academy of Design Galleries, New York, Art Students League Benefit Sale, May 18–July 4, 1982.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Artist's Hand Holding Children's Drawings, 1940 (Catalogue no. 354)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=354 (accessed on July 25, 2026).