Edwin Dikinson
Blue Vase
(516)
1950
New York, NY
Oil on canvas
14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm)
Dated, signed, inscribed on top: "1950 E W Dickinson N A"
[National Academician]
[National Academician]
Photo: National Academy of Design
Notes
Painted in New York, NY, as part of a large self portrait, see CR#. ED was dissatisfied with the portrait and cut it up saving the head (Collection Dr. Alexander Halperin) and the image of his grandmother's vase. Journal, April 11, 1951 "took still life blue & white pitcher from self-portrait 43-33 of last year (destroyed) to the Academy for my academicians diploma."Provenance
National Academy of Design
Exhibition History
1954b NAD:
Paintings by Edwin Dickinson
1959 Boston University Art Gallery:
Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective Exhibition, as "Still Life (fragment from 'Self Portrait'
1961 James Graham & Sons:
Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective
1965 Whitney:
Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective
1976 PAAM:
Edwin Dickinson Retrospective
1994 NAD:
The Artist's Eye: Wayne Thiebaud Selects Paintings from the Prmanent Collection