Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Villa and Alice
Catalogue no. 399
1941
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
24 x 29 in. (61 x 73.7 cm)
Signed, dated upper right: "E W Dickinson / 1941"
Photo: Eric Mitchell
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA. ED note: "This is a picture of a villa that could not be built. It is entirely
imaginary." "I made that particular breach of usual procedure [the unsteadiness of the station point
breaches undertaken perspective matters] one other time deliberately and violently in a piece in a oil on
canvas of Alice Crowley, apparently asleep and the figure of Alice was made from a drawing of Alice
simulating sleep in Buffalo. It has very violent perspective in it." Alice Crowley was a Buffalo model. See
"Sleeping Woman", 1939
Provenance
Private collection
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Dietrich II
Exhibition History
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
HCE Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1963.
Old Westbury, New York, 1964.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
Gilman Galleries, Chicago, Edwin Dickinson, Paintings, January 8– ? 1966.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Peale Galleries, Philadelphia, Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, April 21–May 29, 1966.
Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York, Paintings and Drawings by Edwin Dickinson, June 12–July 12, 1966.
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., 1967.
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.
Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes, September 18, 1980–December 14, 1981.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Villa and Alice, 1941 (Catalogue no. 399)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=399 (accessed on July 24, 2026).