Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Dune, South Wellfleet Beach
Catalogue no. 359
1940
South Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
19 7/8 x 22 1/8 in. (50.5 x 56.2 cm)
Signed on right: "E W Dickinson"
partially dated lower left: "194 "
partially dated lower left: "194 "
Photo: Eric Mitchell
Notes
Painted in South Wellfleet, MA, March 20, (journal), on south end of Indian Neck, an oval.
ED note: ". . . winter P C [premier coup] (March)" "fresh southwest winter wind, there is lots of sand in
the paint."
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Ferdinand H. Davis
Artist
Helen Dickinson Baldwin
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Dietrich II
Exhibition History
Passedoit Gallery, New York, Paintings, Edwin Dickinson, April 8–27, 1940.
National Academy of Design, New York, Annual, 1966.
Provincetown Art Association, Hawthorne Memorial Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson, August 3–September 4, 1967, as "South Indian Neck Beach".
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Untitled '68, 1968.
Cape Cod Art Association, Hyannis, Massachusetts, An Exhibition of the Work of 40 Distinguished Guest Artists from Cape Cod and the Islands, July 27–August 8, 1969, as "Winter Beach, South Wellfleet".
Institute of Contemporary Art and the Weeden Gallery, 1970, as "Dune, South Wellfleet".
Wellfleet Art Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Special Exhibition: Edwin Dickinson, Painting-Drawing, 1911-1950, June 26–July 5, 1970.
Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and Arts, Barnstable, Massachusetts, Paintings and Drawings by Edwin Dickinson, July 12–August 1, 1970.
Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island, An Exhibition of Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, August 13–24, 1970.
Wellfleet Art Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Paintings and Drawings by Edwin Dickinson, July 10–17, 1972, as "South Wellfleet".
Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes, September 18, 1980–December 14, 1981.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, November 12–December 30, 1983.
Babcock Galleries, New York, Edwin Dickinson, A Vision of Coast and Sea, May 19–June 29, 1990.
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Dune, South Wellfleet Beach, 1940 (Catalogue no. 359)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=359 (accessed on July 25, 2026).