Catalogue entry

Self Portrait with St. Cyr
Catalogue no. 389
1941
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
20 x 23 in. (50.8 x 58.4 cm)
Dated, signed on right with last name continued on top: "1941 E W Dickins/on"
Inscribed lower left: "Wellfleet"
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, February 10, March 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (journal). ED note: "House at St. Cyr sur/mer, Var (towards Marseille)". St. Cyr was painted from memory.
Provenance
The Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art
Exhibition History
1941 Passedoit Gallery
Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, Paintings, Edwin Dickinson, April 1–21, 1941, as "Portrait".
1942 PAA
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1942, as "Sketch".
1943 Corcoran
Corcoran, Washington, D.C., 1943.
1943–44 MoMA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1943–44, as "Portrait of a Man".
1945 Carnegie Institute
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1945.
1952 MoMA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 15 Americans, April 8–June 22, 1952.
1958 Cushman Gallery
Cushman Gallery, Houston, 1958.
1958 World of Realism
World of Realism, Dallas, 1958.
1965 Whitney
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Self Portrait with St. Cyr, 1941 (Catalogue no. 389)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=389 (accessed on July 25, 2026).