Edwin Dikinson
Geissbuhler Head
(1012)
1942
Wellfleet, MA
Pencil on paper
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Inscribed, numbered, dated, signed lower right: "from a head by / Arnold Geissbuhler / 34 1942
E W Dickinson"
Inscribed on right: "drawing on reverse"
E W Dickinson"
Inscribed on right: "drawing on reverse"
Notes
Notes: Drawn in Wellfleet, MA, June 3 (journal), from a plaster sculpture given ED April 5 (journal) by Geissbuhler. ED notes explain "drawing on reverse"."On reverse a drawing made for an article on the Roller Gear, my only illustration, for an article by Dr. Richard Parmenter in Yachting years ago." To AWS & EHS, January 3 & 15, 1938, refers to the "Yachting" illustration as has seen the roller gear in operation for the first time, in the Sanary harbor.
[ The sculpture is 12" tall, 8 1/4" wide, 12" deep, and is owned by Mr. & Mrs. Breverman.] for fig. of the actual head.
Provenance
Harvey and Deborah Breverman
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Exhibition History
1976–77 Burchfield Center, Buffalo:
First Decade
1977–78 Burchfield Center, Buffalo:
Tribute Exhibition: Edwin Dickinson
1982 Ontario:
20th Century Drawings from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Breverman
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