Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Paris Windows
Catalogue no. 528
1952
Paris, France
Oil on panel
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed top left: "E W Dickinson"
Inscribed, dated lower right: "Paris / 1952"
Inscribed, dated lower right: "Paris / 1952"
Private collection
Photo: Adam Hurwitz
Notes
Notes: Painted in Paris, France June 23, 24, 25, 26 (journal) from hotel window at 3, rue Bonaparte. To FD June 24."At a distance my piece looks just like a non-objective; up closer, it looks just like the side of a house." In 1958 painting was awarded the Benjamin Altman (landscape) prize by the National Academy of Design.
Provenance
Gardner & Ruth Jencks
Private collection
Exhibition History
National Arts Club, New York, 1953.
Stable Gallery, New York, 1953.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1954.
Cornell University, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Ithica, Edwin Dickinson, Visiting Artist: An Exhibition of Paintings, 1912-1956, December 10, 1957–January 10, 1958.
Cushman Gallery, Houston, 1958.
National Academy of Design, New York, 1958.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965, as "Windows, Paris".
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. 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.
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. "Paris Windows, 1952 (Catalogue no. 528)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=528 (accessed on July 15, 2026).