Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Anna Hanley Bird
Catalogue no. 947
1937
Bradford, PA
on paper
10 5/8 x 12 5/8 in. (27 x 32.1 cm)
Dated, signed upper right: "1937 E W Dickinson"
Photo: James McKenna Bird
Notes
Notes: Drawn in Bradford, PA, of Mrs. John W. Bird (Anna Hanley) May 25, 26. (journal). A commission, Mrs. Bird was displeased with her portrait and it was refused. Mrs. Bird was the sister of Dr. T. Edward Hanley.
Pl. 30, Goodrich, "Drawings of Edwin Dickinson."
Provenance
Private Collection
Exhibition History
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, March 7–April 4, 1959.
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961, as "Portrait" 1941".
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965, as "Portrait".
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Selections from the Drawing Collection of David Daniels, February 1968, as "Portrait". Traveled to: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, February 21–April 21, 1968; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, May 3–June 23, 1968; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, July 11–September 29, 1968; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 16–November 25, 1968.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, November 23, 1976–January 23, 1977, as "Portrait of a Woman".
Baltimore Museum of Art and AFA, United States, Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, August 1979–August 1980, as "Portrait of Mrs. B." Traveled to: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, August 24–October 14, 1979; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, 1979; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1980; Denver Art Museum, Denver, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1980.
National Academy of Design Galleries, New York, Art Students League Benefit Sale, May 18–July 4, 1982, as "Portrait of a Woman."
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Figure Drawings from the Museum's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection, July 21–September 27, 1987, as "Portrait of Mrs. B."
Drawings from the Museum's Collection. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, As Artists See Us, May 14–August 11, 1991, as "Portrait of Mrs. B."
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Anna Hanley Bird, 1937 (Catalogue no. 947)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=947 (accessed on July 18, 2026).