Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Carrousel Bridge
Catalogue no. 531
1952
Paris, France
Oil on panel
12 x 14 1/2 in. (30.5 x 36.8 cm)
Signed on bottom: "E W Dickinson"
Inscribed, dated on top: "Paris 1952"
Inscribed, dated on top: "Paris 1952"
Notes
Painted in Paris, France, July 21, 22 (journal). Reminiscences of EDWIN DICKINSON, Oral History
Research Office, Columbia University: 160. "The bridge was beautiful in color, and it came out well in the
painting. . .The drawing involved some difficulty, and the reason I didn't paint the piece in one strike, as
was intended and as I usually do, premier coup, is that I took one morning to draw the object, and one to
paint it. I drew on this for about three hours, and painted for about three hours [on second day]."
[see letter of July 22, 1952 to Pat on drawing & painting this].
Provenance
Exhibition History
National Academy of Design, New York, Annual, 1953.
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson, 1961–63. Traveled to: Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee, November 15, 1961; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, January 5, 1962; Chatham College, Pittsburgh, February 5, 1962; University of Texas, Austin, Texas, May 8, 1962; Art Center of La Jolla, La Jolla, California, June 22, 1962; Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 7, 1962; Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, October 15, 1962; Quincy Art Club, Quincy, Illinois, November 20, 1962; Telfer Academy of Arts and Science, Savannah, Georgia, January 7, 1963; Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, Delaware, February 15, 1963; University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, April 2, 1963; Madison Art Association, Madison, Wisconsin, May 8, 1963.
Flagstaff, Arkansas, 1965.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
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.
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, Spaces and Places, September 22–November 12, 1972.
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. "Carrousel Bridge, 1952 (Catalogue no. 531)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=531 (accessed on July 15, 2026).