Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Chair, Skowhegan I
Catalogue no. 551
1956
Skowhegan, ME
Oil on panel
15 x 12 1/2 in. (38.1 x 31.8 cm)
Signed on left: "E W Dickinson"
Dated on right: "1956"
Inscribed on top: "Skowhegan TOP"
Dated on right: "1956"
Inscribed on top: "Skowhegan TOP"
Notes
Painted in Skowhegan, ME, August 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, (journal), at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Letter to Mr. Goldstone from ED, March 26, 1961: "I intended in both cases, [the Skowhegan chair paintings of 1956 and 1958] to push the chairs farther but failed to because of the teaching schedule at the school. Henry V. Poor's marble palette is visible in the piece. The piece is marked in the back 'top' - The Chair properly seen is an inverted chair." It originally belonged to Henry Varnum Poor.[Goldstone Collection catalogue, Brooklyn Museum, 1965, p 23]. In 1958 it was in the studio of sculptor Sidney Simon, afterwards disappearing from Skowhegan [author's conversation with SS]. It came to be owned by the Goldstones and was sold, to Mr. O'Connor, with the painting by Kraushaar Galleries in 1997. See Chair, Skowhegan II, 1958.
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Herbert A. Goldstone
Estate
John O'Connor
Exhibition History
Cushman Gallery, Houston, 1958.
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, March 7–April 4, 1959, exhibited as "The Chair, 1959".
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 1961.
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961.
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.
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, 1963–64.
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 1965.
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, as "The Chair, 1959".
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Chair, Skowhegan I, 1956 (Catalogue no. 551)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=551 (accessed on July 16, 2026).