Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Rock Edge, Palisades
Catalogue no. 540
1953
Palisades State Park, NJ
Oil on canvas
19 3/4 x 22 7/8 in. (50.2 x 58.1 cm)
Signed, dated on bottom: "E W Dickinson 1953"
Gilbert & Ruth Scharf
Photo: Babcock Galleries
Notes
Painted in Palisades State Park, NJ, October 19 (journal).
Provenance
Private collection
Scharf Family Collection
Gilbert & Ruth Scharf
Exhibition History
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1958, as "Hudson River from the Palisades".
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, March 7–April 4, 1959, as "Palisades, 1954".
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson, 1961–63, as "Cliff Edge, Palisades". 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.
Brooklyn, New York, South Brooklyn Neighborhood Houses [?], 1964.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
Gilman Galleries, Chicago, Edwin Dickinson, Paintings, January 8– ? 1966.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Peale Galleries, Philadelphia, Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, April 21–May 29, 1966.
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Untitled '68, 1968.
Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes, September 18, 1980–December 14, 1981.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, November 12–December 30, 1983.
Alpha Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, March 9–April 3, 1985.
Organized by Art Dealers Association of America. Babcock Galleries, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, The Art Show, February 15–19, 1989.
Babcock Galleries, New York, Edwin Dickinson, A Vision of Coast and Sea, May 19–June 29, 1990.
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Rock Edge, Palisades, 1953 (Catalogue no. 540)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=540 (accessed on July 15, 2026).