Catalogue entry

Self Portrait Leaning Back
Catalogue no. 541
1954
New York, NY
Oil on canvas
26 1/4 x 24 3/8 in. (66.7 x 61.9 cm)
Signed on left: "E W Dickinson"
Signed, dated, inscribed top left: "E W Dickinson / New York 1954"
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Photo: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Notes
Painted in New York, NY, 37 West 10th St., January 20, "set up portrait", 22"mixed for self portrait.", 25, 26, 27, 29, February 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19 "hope for my head 25/39", 23, 24, March 3, 5, 10, 12, 24, 30, April 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 14, 18 "showed Pat & Cons the 39/25", 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28,
Exhibition History
1974–75 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution, Inaugural Exhibition. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, October 4, 1974–September 15, 1975.
1979 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Artists and Others: Some Portraits from the Collection, January 11–April 29, 1979.
1982 New Brunswick
New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1982.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Self Portrait Leaning Back, 1954 (Catalogue no. 541)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=541 (accessed on July 16, 2026).