Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Receding Tide
Catalogue no. 506
1948
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on panel
9 x 11 in. (22.9 x 27.9 cm)
Inscribed, signed on bottom: " Wellfleet E W Dickinson"
partially dated lower right: "194 "
partially dated above lower right: " 948"
partially dated lower right: "194 "
partially dated above lower right: " 948"
Mr. & Mrs. Howard Wise
Photo: Geoffrey Clements
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, July 15 (journal), on Indian Neck looking toward Mayo's Beach.
Provenance
Frances Dickinson
Mr. & Mrs. Howard Wise
Exhibition History
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1948, as "View from Indian Neck".
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, March 7–April 4, 1959, as "Receding Tide, Indian Neck".
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961, as "Mayo's Beach from Indian Neck" dated 1946.
Vassar College, 1962.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965, as "Receding Tide, Indian Neck".
Provincetown Art Association, Hawthorne Memorial Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson, August 3–September 4, 1967.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Receding Tide, 1948 (Catalogue no. 506)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=506 (accessed on July 15, 2026).