Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
View of Great Island
Catalogue no. 376
1940
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
15 1/4 x 19 1/8 in. (38.7 x 48.6 cm)
Signed on bottom: "E W Dickinson"
Photo: The Brooklyn Museum
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, October 5 from Indian Neck Inlet (journal). FD note: "In background is
Great Beach Hill where we used to walk. This is a view toward the west over the marsh that divides north
Indian Neck from South Indian Neck. In the distance across Wellfleet Harbor, lies Great Island." [Journal
July 4, 1954, M. Hutchins wants to buy "Father's Marsh." July 27 M. Hutchins wires she wants it at $650,
30th a check from her, August 2 it sent to her, 9 he sent Tibi $25 from it, the amount his father had paid for it
on his 85th birthday when he present while it painted.] move to below
Provenance
Antoinette Dickinson Van Sickle
Rev. Edwin Henry Dickinson
Artist
Margaret Hutchins
Artist
Exhibition History
Buffalo, New York, 1940.
National Art Week, 1940.
Monomoy Theatre, Chatham, Massachusetts, Work by Edwin Dickinson, August 11–18, 1942.
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 "Wellfleet Marsh".
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "View of Great Island, 1940 (Catalogue no. 376)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=376 (accessed on July 25, 2026).