Bulkhead Brace

(19)
1913
Provincetown, MA
Oil on composition board
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Signed, dated upper left: "E W Dickinson / 14 [sic]"
Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Caldwell, Jr.
Photo: Robert A. Baldwin

Notes

Painted in Provincetown, MA, Hawthorne class. ED note: "It was the first piece I signed and was done in 1913." In class Hawthorne commented, "I think you will become an interesting figure in American art." A bulkhead is a barrier built to hold back sea or lake water.

Provenance

Helen Dickinson Baldwin
Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Caldwell, Jr.

Exhibition History

1973c PAAM: The Sea, as "Beach Shore"
2007 PAAM: Edwin Dickinson In Provincetown 1912-1937