Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Martha
Catalogue no. 431
1942
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
20 x 23 in. (50.8 x 58.4 cm)
Signed on bottom: "E W Dickinson"
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
Photo: Equitable Life Assurance Society
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA. Sitter was Martha Melville, a student whose parents owned a house on
Cove Road a half mile from the Dickinsons.
Provenance
Helen Dickinson Baldwin
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
Exhibition History
AFA, 1963.
HCE Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1964.
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.
Provincetown Art Association, Hawthorne Memorial Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson, August 3–September 4, 1967.
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.
Hammelbacher Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, Selected Works by Edwin Dickinson, late January-early February, 1975.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, November 12–December 30, 1983.
Alpha Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, March 9–April 3, 1985.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Martha, 1942 (Catalogue no. 431)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=431 (accessed on July 23, 2026).