Catalogue entry

Window and Oar
Catalogue no. 545
1955
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on masonite
12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Signed, dated on left: "E W Dickinson / 1955"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Photo: Geoffrey Clements
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA, June 22, 23, 25, (journal) of south window of cottage near the Dickinson house. It incorporates many of ED's most loved subjects: reflections, drapery, "distortion" of objects when seen through the screen, the quite expansive reflected scene encompassed within a very small architectural "frame." Particularly nice is the reflected telephone pole some distance away.
Exhibition History
1954 Unknown
Unknown venue, 1954.
1955a PAA
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1955, as "Cottage Window".
1958 Cushman Gallery
Cushman Gallery, Houston, 1958.
1959 PAA
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1959.
1959 Boston University Art Gallery
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, March 7–April 4, 1959, as "Cottage Window and Oar".
1961 James Graham & Sons
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961, as "Through a Cottage Window, 1941".
1962 American Academy & National Institute
American Academy & National Institute, New York, 1962.
1965 Whitney
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
1968–69 Venice Biennial
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.
1977 Whitney
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, American Art 1920-1945. A Permanent Collection Exhibition, October 28–?, 1977.
1980–81 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes, September 18, 1980–December 14, 1981.
1983 Hirschl & Adler Galleries
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, November 12–December 30, 1983.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Window and Oar, 1955 (Catalogue no. 545)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=545 (accessed on July 15, 2026).