Catalogue entry

Lieutenant Island from Indian Neck
Catalogue no. 494
1946
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Inscribed, dated, signed on left: "24 Aug 1948 To our god daughter Elizabeth Dick ED-FD / 46
E W Dickinson"
Dated, inscribed on right: "21 Aug 46 / ADVS"
Photo: Babcock Galleries
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, August 21, "(Spence's house, etc) vertical sea weed high tide mark in center.", (journal). The date and inscription on right refer to birthday of ED's sister, Tibi. Inscriptions on left indicate both the painting's date and that of it as a christening gift August 24, 1948 to the goddaughter of ED and FD, Elizabeth "Sandy" Dick, daughter of old friend and Dickinson collector Sheldon Dick.
Provenance
Frances Dickinson
Elizabeth "Sandy" Dick [Durand Hebben]
Scharf Family Collection
Exhibition History
1990b Babcock Galleries
Babcock Galleries, New York, Edwin Dickinson, A Vision of Coast and Sea, May 19–June 29, 1990.
1991–92 Sendai Japan
Organized by Miyaqi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan, American Realism & Figurative Art, 1955-1990, 1991–92. Traveled to: Miyaqi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan, November 1, 1991; Wadsworth Atheneum, Japan, 1992; Sogu Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, January 29, 1992; Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan, February 22, 1992; Museum of Modern Art, Shinga, Japan, April 4, 1992.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Lieutenant Island from Indian Neck, 1946 (Catalogue no. 494)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=494 (accessed on July 17, 2026).