Catalogue entry

Frances Dickinson Reading "War and Peace" Aloud
Catalogue no. 890
1935
Buffalo, NY
Pastel on paper
10 1/2 x 11 1/8 in. (26.7 x 28.3 cm)
Signed, inscribed, dated, inscribed, numbered lower right:
"E W Dickinson / Buffalo / 1935 / War & Peace / AC8"
Private Collection
Photo: Robert Baldwin
Notes
Drawn in Buffalo, NY, between March and June, possibly May 27, (journal), in the Sawyer cottage behind 770 West Ferry St. Reading aloud in the evening was one of the Dickinsons' principal recreations.
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Weinstein (Mickie)
Frank Hogan
Exhibition History
1975 Wellfleet Art Gallery
Wellfleet Art Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Edwin Dickinson, Drawings and Etchings, [August], 1975.
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, as "Frances Dickinson Reading War and Peace in the Sawyer Cottage". 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. "Frances Dickinson Reading "War and Peace" Aloud, 1935 (Catalogue no. 890)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=890 (accessed on July 21, 2026).