Edwin Dikinson
Carrousel Bridge
(531)
1952
Paris, France
Oil on panel
12 x 14 1/2 in. (30.5 x 36.8 cm)
Signed on bottom: "E W Dickinson"
Inscribed, dated on top: "Paris 1952"
Inscribed, dated on top: "Paris 1952"
Photo: National Museum of American Art
Notes
Painted in Paris, France, July 21, 22 (journal). Reminiscences of EDWIN DICKINSON, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University: 160. "The bridge was beautiful in color, and it came out well in the painting. . .The drawing involved some difficulty, and the reason I didn't paint the piece in one strike, as was intended and as I usually do, premier coup, is that I took one morning to draw the object, and one to paint it. I drew on this for about three hours, and painted for about three hours [on second day]." [see letter of July 22, 1952 to Pat on drawing & painting this].Provenance
National Academy of Design, Henry Ward Ranger Fund, loan to Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art
Exhibition History
1953 NAD:
Annual
1961 James Graham & Sons:
Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective
1961–63 MoMA:
Edwin Dickinson
1965 Whitney:
Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective
1967b PAA:
Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson
1968–69 Venice Biennial:
The Figurative Tradition in Recent American Art: Edwin Dickinson
1972 Portland, ME:
Spaces and Places
1980–81 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden:
Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes