Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Melzar Chaffee
Catalogue no. 747
1920
Provincetown, MA
Pencil on paper
8 x 5 in. (20.3 x 12.7 cm)
Initialed under violin: "EWD"
Numbered, signed, dated on right: "36B / E W Dickinson 1920"
Inscribed on bottom: "Same / time / as Miriam Haltfinger 36A / drawing"
In another hand, probably Chaffee's, inscribed, dated, below figure: "Melzar Chaffee /
Provincetown / Sept 15/20"
Numbered, signed, dated on right: "36B / E W Dickinson 1920"
Inscribed on bottom: "Same / time / as Miriam Haltfinger 36A / drawing"
In another hand, probably Chaffee's, inscribed, dated, below figure: "Melzar Chaffee /
Provincetown / Sept 15/20"
Anonymous (Copies of old images)
Notes
Drawn in Provincetown, MA, September 15. ED note: "Chaffee Quartette (50 Bradford St)
Provincetown 1920." Miriam Haltfinger, CR#, the violist. (journal July memo '61). [Melzar perhaps related to
painter Oliver Chaffee]
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Melzar Chaffee, 1920 (Catalogue no. 747)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=747 (accessed on July 17, 2026).