Frances Dickinson on Mt. Mawson

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1937

Provincetown, MA

Oil on canvas

25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)

Dated, signed on left: "1937 E W Dickinson"

Photo: Anonymous (Copies of old images)

Notes

Painted in Provincetown, MA, August 4, on a dune (journal). ED and his friends called the dune Mt. Mawson in honor of Sir Douglas Mawson who organized the Australian Antarctic expedition of 1911. FD posed nude and her hips were badly sunburned.

Provenance

Mr. & Mrs. Ansley W. Sawyer

Artist

Helen Dickinson Baldwin

Sheldon Dick

Mr. & Mrs. Louis Sosland

Artist

Exhibition History

1968 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: Painting & Sculpture from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Louis Sosland