Catalogue entry

Blackfish Creek Marsh
Catalogue no. 361
1940
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
23 x 28 in. (58.4 x 71.1 cm)
Signed on right: "E W Dickinson"
Dated on left: "1940"
Photo: Babcock Galleries
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, from in back of Paul Dyer's house. The name of the large marsh derives from the beaching of a school of about 1500 blackfish there in 1884.
Provenance
Private collection
Scharf Family Collection
Exhibition History
1942 Passedoit Gallery
Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, Paintings, Edwin Dickinson, March 9–28, 1942, as "Marsh at Blackfish Creek".
1951 ASL
Art Students League, New York, Diamond Jubilee, 1951.
1962 HCE Gallery
HCE Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1962.
1970 ICA & Weeden Gallery
Institute of Contemporary Art and the Weeden Gallery, 1970.
1970 Cape Cod Conservatory
Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and Arts, Barnstable, Massachusetts, Paintings and Drawings by Edwin Dickinson, July 12–August 1, 1970.
1970 Bristol Art Museum
Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island, An Exhibition of Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, August 13–24, 1970.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Blackfish Creek Marsh, 1940 (Catalogue no. 361)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=361 (accessed on July 25, 2026).