Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Mother and Child
Catalogue no. 850
1931
Cambridge, MA
Pencil on paper
12 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (31.8 x 23.8 cm)
Initialed, inscribed, dated on top: "EWD Pat Cambridge / 24 May 1931"
Inscribed at left: "Helen"
Inscribed at left: "Helen"
Jan Hird Pokorny
Photo: Glenn Castellano
Notes
Drawn in Cambridge, MA, in hospital after Helen's birth, May 16. Baby's head shown five
times.
Pl. 15, Goodrich, "Drawings of Edwin Dickinson."
Provenance
Jan Hird Pokorny
Exhibition History
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, March 7–April 4, 1959, as "Frances and Infant".
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.
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Mother and Child, 1931 (Catalogue no. 850)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=850 (accessed on July 17, 2026).