Catalogue entry

Staircase, The Manse at Ulysses
Catalogue no. 816
1928
Trumansburg, NY
Pencil on paper
10 x 7 3/4 in. (25.4 x 19.7 cm)
Signed, dated upper left: "E W Dickinson 1928"
Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Graham
Photo: James Graham & Sons
Notes
Drawn in Trumansburg, NY, January 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (journal). ED's father was pastor of The First Presbyterian Church of Ulysses, located in Trumansburg, NY. To FD, from train to Trumansburg to Buffalo, March 23, 1931, "Borrowed Luty's drawing of the stairs in the Manse to shown Buffalo (my only interior).
Provenance
Louise Walbridge Dickinson (Mrs. Edwin H.)
Artist
Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Graham
Exhibition History
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1931.
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, March 7–April 4, 1959, as "Stairway, Manse, Trumansburg".
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961, as "Spiral Staircase".
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965.
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.
National Academy of Design Galleries, New York, Art Students League Benefit Sale, May 18–July 4, 1982.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Staircase, The Manse at Ulysses, 1928 (Catalogue no. 816)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=816 (accessed on July 16, 2026).