Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
The Flag, Frazier's House
Catalogue no. 501
1947
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25.4 cm)
Signed upper left: "E W Dickinson"
Dated on top: "1947"
Inscribed lower right: "Wellfleet"
Dated on top: "1947"
Inscribed lower right: "Wellfleet"
John O'Connor
Photo: Berta Walker Gallery
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, August 29 (journal), of home of John R. Frazier on hill above Dickinson house, ED liked having the flag appear twice in the painting. See also "John R. Frazier's House at Wellfleet," 1945.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1948.
Provincetown Art Association, Hawthorne Memorial Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson, August 3–September 4, 1967.
XXXIV International Biennial Exhibition of Art, Venice, Italy, The Figurative Tradition in Recent American Art: Edwin Dickinson, June 22–October 20, 1968, as "The Flag at Frazier's House". Traveled to: National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., December 19, 1968–February 2, 1969; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 17, 1969.
Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes, September 18, 1980–December 14, 1981.
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Artists and Their Art: The Yater Years, August 14–September 22, 1992.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "The Flag, Frazier's House, 1947 (Catalogue no. 501)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=501 (accessed on July 16, 2026).