Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Self Portrait in Uniform
Catalogue no. 429
1942
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
24 1/8 x 29 1/8 in. (61.3 x 74 cm)
Dated, signed on bottom: "1942 / E W Dickinson"
Deborah and Edward Shein
Photo: Equitable Life Assurance Society
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA. January 3 "studio overhaul for (self) new 20F." January 4 "(commenced a
20F self portrait in Civil war uniform & cap)". Painted January 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24,
25, 26, 27, February 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, "fini self in '65 uniform" (journal). The uniform was purchased many years before at Bannerman's in New York, see fig #. The bugle belonged to Constant. See preparatory drawing of bugle, CR#.
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Remsen V. Wood
Deborah and Edward Shein
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
Deborah and Edward Shein
Exhibition History
Federation Modern Painters & Sculptors, New York, 1942.
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, as "Portrait in Uniform".
Monomoy Theatre, Chatham, Massachusetts, Work by Edwin Dickinson, August 11–18, 1942, as "Portrait in Uniform".
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 "Self-Portrait" and dated "1924".
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961, dated 1946.
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.
Provincetown Art Association, Hawthorne Memorial Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson, August 3–September 4, 1967, as "Portrait in Uniform".
State University College at Buffalo, Charles Burchfield Center, Buffalo, New York, Tribute Exhibition: Edwin Dickinson, September 18, 1977–November 6, 1978, as "Self-Portrait in Civil War Uniform". Traveled to: Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York, January 14–February 19, 1978; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, November 16–December 23, 1978.
National Academy of Design Galleries, New York, Art Students League Benefit Sale, May 18–July 4, 1982.
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, The Painterly Figure, July 24–September 4, 1983.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, November 12–December 30, 1983.
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Self Portrait in Uniform, 1942 (Catalogue no. 429)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=429 (accessed on July 23, 2026).