Catalogue entry

Self Portrait in Grey Shirt
Catalogue no. 451
1943
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
24 x 19 in. (61 x 48.3 cm)
Dated, signed on right: "1943 E W Dickinson"
Inscribed on left: "Wellfleet"
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, gift of S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc, gift of S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
Photo: National Museum of American Art
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA; set-up for portrait March 10, 11; painted March 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 31, April 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 23. Wearing "Sanary shirt", March 12, "Scraped," April 23 (journal).
Provenance
Johnson Wax Company Collection
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art
Exhibition History
1961 Philadelphia Art Alliance
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Edwin Dickinson, November 29–December 31, 1961.
1979 Heckscher Museum
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, As We See Ourselves: Artists Self Portraits, June 22–August 5, 1979.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Self Portrait in Grey Shirt, 1943 (Catalogue no. 451)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=451 (accessed on July 21, 2026).