Tom Never's Head

(216)
1933
Oil on canvas
15 1/4 x 25 3/8 in. (38.7 x 64.5 cm)
Signed, inscribed, dated on right: "E W Dickinson Nantucket 1935 [sic]"
Inscribed lower left: "Tom Never's Head"
Photo: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Notes

Painted on Nantucket Island, August 3, of a headland on the south coast, (journal). Painting was signed and dated by ED, in ink, many years later and the date mis-remembered. Painting cut down by the artist from 26x30".

Provenance

Helen Dickinson Baldwin
Joseph H. Hirshhorn
Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Exhibition History

1961 James Graham & Sons: Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, as "South Coast, Nantucket Island, 1933"
1980–81 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes
1982b NAD: Art Students League Benefit Sale, dated 1935