Dur yol cu

(1112)

1960

Pencil on paper

7 3/4 x 5 in. (19.7 x 12.7 cm)

Signed at top: "E W Dickinson"
Inscribed upper right: "PS [?] 197 / LaPauze"
Inscribed lower right: "`Stop Traveler' / Gallipoli / x Beach ?"
Inscribed at bottom: "DUR YOL CU / Galippoli [sic] / In Memoriam 1915 Dardanelles"
Numbered, inscribed mid left: "134 / Cape Hello"
Signed, dated, inscribed at left: "E W Dickinson / 1960 Gallipoli."

Photo: Anonymous (Copies of old images)

Notes

Drawn August 8 (journal), aboard the M/V Hollandia off Gallipoli, Turkey in the Dardanelles. "Gallipoli" inscriptions refer to World War I failed Allied campaign of 1915 to gain control of the Dardanelles. "Dur yol cu" is the beginning of a Turkish poem written in immense letters of white stone in honor of those who fell for their country. It means "stop traveler" or "stop passer-by." Above the Turkish landscape is a drawing of drapery presumably taken from Ingres. [ It is possible that the drawing "Second Crusade's Difficulty" is on the reverse of this work rather than "Alicante." Inscription said to be "2nd Crusade in difficulties here."]

Provenance

Estate

Frances Dickinson

Exhibition History

1967b PAA: Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson