Catalogue entry

Study for "An Anniversary"
Catalogue no. 746
1920
Provincetown, MA
Pencil on paper
7 7/8 x 4 7/8 in. (20 x 12.4 cm)
Inscribed, numbered, signed on right: "working drawing / for `An Anniversary /
1920 / top / Provincetown / 69 / E W Dickinson"
Inscribed above signature: "darkest here II"
Inscribed on top: "(solid) I branches black against dark (Warmer) / II interlacing of dead
boughs with cones / green needles with dark small / branches in front holding them"
Inscribed at left: "sand begins here"
Inscribed below at left: "I"
Inscribed bottom left: "silhouette / gray branches"
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, bequest of Daniel W. Dietrich II
Notes
Drawn in Provincetown, MA. See "An Anniversary" 1920-1921. ED rarely did preparatory drawings, this work is an exception.
Exhibition History
1967b PAA
Provincetown Art Association, Hawthorne Memorial Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson, August 3–September 4, 1967.
1977–78 Burchfield Center, Buffalo
State University College at Buffalo, Charles Burchfield Center, Buffalo, New York, Tribute Exhibition: Edwin Dickinson, September 18, 1977–November 6, 1978. Traveled to: Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York, January 14–February 19, 1978; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, November 16–December 23, 1978.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Study for "An Anniversary", 1920 (Catalogue no. 746)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=746 (accessed on July 17, 2026).