Catalogue entry

Back of Harry Campbell's Shop
Catalogue no. 41
c.1914
Provincetown, MA
Oil on composition board
14 3/4 x 18 in. (37.5 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower left: "E W Dickinson"
James P. Bennette, Jr. and David Cowan
Photo: Richard York Gallery
Notes
Painted in Provincetown, MA. Painting usually dated by ED many years later as "1924" but HDB believes an earlier date is stylistically more nearly correct. Harry Campbell owned an art supply store. He was the brother of Marion Campbell, wife of Charles W. Hawthorne, and father of Caro Campbell, CR# and CR#.
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Ansley W. Sawyer
Mr. & Mrs. Ansley W. Sawyer, Jr
Joanna Sawyer
James P. Bennette, Jr. and David Cowan
Exhibition History
1957–58 Cornell University
Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Ithica, Edwin Dickinson, Visiting Artist: An Exhibition of Paintings, 1912-1956, December 10, 1957–January 10, 1958, as "Back of Campbell's" & dated 1924.
1983 Hirschl & Adler Galleries
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, November 12–December 30, 1983, dated 1924.
1985 Alpha Gallery
Alpha Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, March 9–April 3, 1985, dated 1924.
2007 PAAM
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Edwin Dickinson In Provincetown 1912-1937, July 20–September 23, 2007.
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Back of Harry Campbell's Shop, c.1914 (Catalogue no. 41)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=41 (accessed on July 26, 2026).