Catalogue entry

Janice at the Beach
Catalogue no. 370
1940
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
19 x 15 in. (48.3 x 38.1 cm)
Dated, signed on right: "1940 E W Dickinson"
Inscribed upper left: "Janice"
[lent to Buffalo show by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery] Private collection
Photo: Christie's
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, September 3, 4 (journal). Janice, a life long friend, sister of Jack Tworkov, her husband Ford Madox Ford died in 1939, and she visited the Dickinsons August 29 to September 11 (journal). She was later the wife of Daniel Brustlein (the artist Alain). She paints under the name "Biala," the name of the town in Poland where she grew up.
Provenance
Unknown
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III
[lent to Buffalo show by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery] Private collection
Exhibition History
1941 Passedoit Gallery
Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, Paintings, Edwin Dickinson, April 1–21, 1941, as "Study".
1961 James Graham & Sons
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
1964b Whitney
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Friends Collect, 1964, dated 1944.
1965 Whitney
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965, dated 1944.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Janice at the Beach, 1940 (Catalogue no. 370)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=370 (accessed on July 25, 2026).