Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Cap Fréhel
Catalogue no. 428
1941–45
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
20 x 23 in. (50.8 x 58.4 cm)
Signed on top: "E W Dickinson"
Inscribed in rectangle at bottom: "CAP FRÉHEL La Fauconnière / C du N" [Côtes du Nord]
Inscribed in rectangle at bottom: "CAP FRÉHEL La Fauconnière / C du N" [Côtes du Nord]
Janice Tworkov Brustlein (Biala)
Photo: Bruce White
Notes
Notes: Painted in Wellfleet, MA, from a postcard, July 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, August, 2, 3, 4, 14, 15 (journal), from a postcard. ED again painted on "Alain's 'Cap Fréhel'", in 1945 (journal). Cap Fréhel, 60 meters high, is on the Brittany coast and he visited it August 28, 1938, (journal). To AWS, January 12, 1939, he recalls the previous September 21st when in the evening he "took a walk, as I wanted to see the great Cap Fréhel [sic] Light blinking."
Provenance
Private collection, Anonymous loan to Princeton University
Janice Tworkov Brustlein (Biala)
Exhibition History
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Cap Fréhel, 1941–45 (Catalogue no. 428)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=428 (accessed on July 23, 2026).