Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
The Rival Beauties
Catalogue no. 55
1915
Provincetown, MA
Oil on canvas
46 x 38 in. (116.8 x 96.5 cm)
Signed, dated on left: "E W Dickinson 1915"
Photo: Babcock Galleries
Notes
Painted in Provincetown, MA. ED notes: "Reference Lafcadio Hern [sic] / and the Swedish girl /
friend""Lafcadio Herne [sic] Alie Morling, Gottenberg, Sweden" ED to Tibi, July, 17 1918: "I have the one
of the piano, horse & all the small figures in the P'town [Provincetown] show if it got by the jury as I guess
it did." ED to HDB, January 29, 1965: ". . . of `The Rival Beauties' a quite big one with a horse lying half
under a gd. [grand] piano with a `cellist by it, striking C." May 24, 1953, "In cleaning 'The rival Beauties' . . . I swas surprised at its weight - several impasto pieces under it I suppose - entirely forgotten." (journal).
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Ansley W. Sawyer
Artist: Private collection
Dr. & Mrs. Arthur E. Kahn
Deborah and Edward Shein
Exhibition History
Americans Then and Now, New York, 1940.
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
National Academy of Design Galleries, New York, Art Students League Benefit Sale, May 18–July 4, 1982.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Realism and Abstraction: Counterpoints in American Drawings, 1900-1940, November 12–December 30, 1983.
Organized by Art Dealers Association of America. Babcock Galleries, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, The Art Show, February 15–19, 1989.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "The Rival Beauties, 1915 (Catalogue no. 55)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=55 (accessed on July 27, 2026).