Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Martha
Catalogue no. 380
1940
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Signed on right: "E W Dickinson"
Dated on top: "1940"
Dated on top: "1940"
Gilbert Scharf
Photo: Babcock Galleries
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, October 23 (journal). Model was Martha Melville, a student whose
parents owned a house near the Dickinsons.
Provenance
Private collection
Gilbert Scharf
Exhibition History
AFA, 1967–68.
Institute of Contemporary Art and the Weeden Gallery, 1970.
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.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, November 12–December 30, 1983.
Alpha Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, March 9–April 3, 1985.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Master Drawings from The Drawing Society's Membership, February 12–March 8, 1986.
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina, Edwin Dickinson, Wallace Putnam and Richard Maury, June 16–July 2, 1992.
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Martha, 1940 (Catalogue no. 380)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=380 (accessed on July 25, 2026).