Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Skiff on Flats
Catalogue no. 373
1940
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
15 x 18 3/4 in. (38.1 x 47.6 cm)
Signed lower left: "E W Dickinson"
Photo: Glenn Castellano
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, September 6 (journal) at the Cove. Subject is ED's catboat, the "Morning" also called the the "85" which was the number of the Nantucket Light Vessel on which he served. in World War I. The painting has been dated "1942" but is itself undated and the signature was added in pencil some years later. There is no evidence it was painted in 1942 but the ED journal shows it was painted in 1940.
Provenance
Private collection
Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Samstag
Private Collection
Exhibition History
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes, September 18, 1980–December 14, 1981, as "The Skiff, the 85," 1942".
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Skiff on Flats, 1940 (Catalogue no. 373)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=373 (accessed on July 25, 2026).