Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
White Boat
Catalogue no. 412
1941
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
16 x 21 1/8 in. (40.6 x 53.7 cm)
Signed, dated on left: "E W Dickinson / 1941"
Photo: Rudolph Burckhardt
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, August 1 (journal), on Shirt Tail Point.
Provenance
Joseph H. Hirshhorn
Exhibition History
Stuart School of Design, Boston, Paintings and Drawings by Edwin Dickinson, February 18–27, 1942.
Georgette Passedoit Gallery, New York, Paintings, Edwin Dickinson, March 9–28, 1942.
Monomoy Theatre, Chatham, Massachusetts, Work by Edwin Dickinson, August 11–18, 1942.
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1945.
Audubon Artists, New York, 1953.
National Academy of Design, New York, Annual, 1953.
National Academy of Design, New York, Annual, 1955.
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.
Cushman Gallery, Houston, 1958.
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, March 7–April 4, 1959.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson, 1961–63. Traveled to: Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee, November 15, 1961; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, January 5, 1962; Chatham College, Pittsburgh, February 5, 1962; University of Texas, Austin, Texas, May 8, 1962; Art Center of La Jolla, La Jolla, California, June 22, 1962; Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 7, 1962; Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, October 15, 1962; Quincy Art Club, Quincy, Illinois, November 20, 1962; Telfer Academy of Arts and Science, Savannah, Georgia, January 7, 1963; Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, Delaware, February 15, 1963; University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, April 2, 1963; Madison Art Association, Madison, Wisconsin, May 8, 1963.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, American Painting and Sculpture: 1900 to 1945, November 12–December 23, 1978.
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. "White Boat, 1941 (Catalogue no. 412)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=412 (accessed on July 24, 2026).