Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Bench and Cove
Alternate title: The Bench
Catalogue no. 542
1954
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on panel
11 x 16 in. (27.9 x 40.6 cm)
No inscriptions
Evelyn Byrd Lorentzen
Photo: W. Scott Miles
Provenance
Evelyn Byrd Lorentzen
Exhibition History
Cushman Gallery, Houston, 1958.
World House Galleries, New York, Selection of Paintings and Drawings by Edwin Dickinson, 1920-1959, 1960.
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961, as The Bench, 1940.
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.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965, as The Bench, 1940.
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. "Bench and Cove, 1954 (Catalogue no. 542)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=542 (accessed on July 16, 2026).