Edwin Dikinson
Catalogue entry
Sleeping Woman
Catalogue no. 973
1939
Buffalo, NY
Pencil on paper
11 x 13 in. (27.9 x 33 cm)
Signed on left: "E W Dickinson"
Dated upper right: "1939"
Signed, dated bottom left: E W Dickinson 1940 [sic]"
Dated upper right: "1939"
Signed, dated bottom left: E W Dickinson 1940 [sic]"
Notes
Drawn in Buffalo, NY, February 16 (journal), of model Alice Crowley. The correct date is 1939 (barely visible), though ED evidently re-dated later as 1940. Alice Crowley was engaged as a model January 21, 1939 (journal).
Pl. 36, Goodrich, "Drawings of Edwin Dickinson."
Provenance
Joseph H. Hirshhorn
Exhibition History
Organized by Students' Guild of Art Institute of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, An Exhibition of Drawings by Edwin W. Dickinson, February 20–March 2, 1940.
Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1947.
James Graham & Sons, New York, Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, February 1–March 11, 1961, as "Model Sleeping" 1940".
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, October 20–November 28, 1965, dated 1940.
Smithsonian Institution, 1984–87.
Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Dickinson Baldwin, Helen. "Sleeping Woman, 1939 (Catalogue no. 973)." In The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. www.edwindickinson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=973 (accessed on July 16, 2026).