Skiff on Flats

(373)
1940
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
15 x 18 3/4 in. (38.1 x 47.6 cm)
Signed lower left: "E W Dickinson"
Photo: Glenn Castellano

Notes

Painted in Wellfleet, MA, September 6 (journal) at the Cove. Subject is ED's catboat, the "Morning" also called the the "85" which was the number of the Nantucket Light Vessel on which he served. in World War I. The painting has been dated "1942" but is itself undated and the signature was added in pencil some years later. There is no evidence it was painted in 1942 but the ED journal shows it was painted in 1940.

Provenance

Private collection
Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Samstag
Private Collection

Exhibition History

1961 James Graham & Sons: Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective
1980–81 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes, as "The Skiff, the 85", 1942"