Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Clothes Pole
Catalogue no. 502
1947
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on panel
11 x 13 in. (27.9 x 33 cm)
Signed on right: "E W Dickinson
Dated on left: "1947"
Inscribed lower right: "Wellfleet"
Dated on left: "1947"
Inscribed lower right: "Wellfleet"
The Family of Øivind Lorentzen, Jr. ?
Photo: W. Scott Miles
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, September 4 (journal), on east side of Dickinson house. The pole was used as a clothesline and was the last remaining piece of what ED called the "Apparatus," a gym set he built for his children in Provincetown, finished July 19, 1937 (journal).
Provenance
Private collection
The Family of Øivind Lorentzen, Jr. ?
Exhibition History
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1948.
Cushman Gallery, Houston, 1958.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1959.
Cape Cod Art Association, Hyannis, Massachusetts, 1961.
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961, dated 1940.
AFA, 1963.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
HCE Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1966.
Provincetown Art Association, Hawthorne Memorial Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson, August 3–September 4, 1967.
Institute of Contemporary Art and the Weeden Gallery, 1970, as "The Clothes Pole".
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Edwin Dickinson Retrospective, August 14–September 7, 1976.
Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes, September 18, 1980–December 14, 1981.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Clothes Pole, 1947 (Catalogue no. 502)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=502 (accessed on July 16, 2026).