Catalogue entry

Blue Vase
Catalogue no. 516
1950
New York, NY
Oil on canvas
14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm)
Dated, signed, inscribed on top: "1950 E W Dickinson N A"
[National Academician]
National Academy of Design
Photo: National Academy of Design
Notes
Painted in New York, NY, as part of a large self portrait, see CR#. ED was dissatisfied with the portrait and cut it up saving the head (Collection Dr. Alexander Halperin) and the image of his grandmother's vase. Journal, April 11, 1951 "took still life blue & white pitcher from self-portrait 43-33 of last year (destroyed) to the Academy for my academicians diploma."
Exhibition History
1951 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, 1951.
1954b NAD
Audubon Artists, National Academy of Design, New York, Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, November 11–?, 1954.
1959 Boston University Art Gallery
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, March 7–April 4, 1959, as "Still Life (fragment from 'Self Portrait'.
1961 James Graham & Sons
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
1965 Whitney
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
1976 PAAM
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Edwin Dickinson Retrospective, August 14–September 7, 1976.
1994 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, The Artist's Eye: Wayne Thiebaud Selects Paintings from the Prmanent Collection, April 8–September 4, 1994.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Blue Vase, 1950 (Catalogue no. 516)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=516 (accessed on July 15, 2026).