Catalogue entry

Nantucket Light Vessel & S.S. Lake Tahoe
Catalogue no. 96
1919
Sheldrake, NY
Oil on composition board
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
Signed on bottom: "E W Dickinson"
Notes
Painted in Sheldrake, NY, in December from a photograph. ED note: "This made up marine from an incident in December 1919 is of interest only because it gives some idea of the appointments of the Nantucket Light Vessel physically. I was aboard her in the winter of 1918-1919." All his life ED had strong memories of his eight months [?] service on the Light Ship and wrote to his family while on board, e.g. December 29, 1918. The S.S. Lake Tahoe was the supply ship which brought out coal, food, mail and newspapers.
Provenance
Private collection
Scharf Family Collection
Exhibition History
1990b Babcock Galleries
Babcock Galleries, New York, Edwin Dickinson, A Vision of Coast and Sea, May 19–June 29, 1990, as "Nantucket Light Vessel".
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Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Nantucket Light Vessel & S.S. Lake Tahoe, 1919 (Catalogue no. 96)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=96 (accessed on July 29, 2026).