Catalogue entry

Cross Rip and Drifter
Catalogue no. 514
1949
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on panel
8 x 9 1/2 in. (20.3 x 24.1 cm)
Signed on left: "E W Dickinson"
Dated, inscribed on right: "1949 Helen"
Inscribed on bottom: "Drifter and X Rip COVE"
Dr. Amy Pollack
Photo: Glenn Castellano
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, June 25 (journal), of the Cove in front of the Dickinson house. The "Cross Rip" was ECD's sailboat and "Drifter" his rowboat. ED note: "wind is from the SSW""If any of the family with me when painting I always put it in."
Provenance
Private collection
Dr. Amy Pollack
Exhibition History
1990b Babcock Galleries
Babcock Galleries, New York, Edwin Dickinson, A Vision of Coast and Sea, May 19–June 29, 1990.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Cross Rip and Drifter, 1949 (Catalogue no. 514)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=514 (accessed on July 15, 2026).