Still Life with Microscope

(386)
1942
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
28 1/4 x 32 in. (71.8 x 81.3 cm)
Signed upper right and left: "E W Dickinson"
Dated top right: "1941"
Photo: The Corcoran Gallery of Art

Notes

Painted in Wellfleet, MA, January 9 began "still life of pines and microscope." Continued 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, 31, February 1, 2. Painting not completed until after October 15,1942, when he set up microscope again and painted October 17, 19, 20 (journal). Painting has a clear"patch" of new paint at the center on which the microscope is painted.

Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Exhibition History

1961 James Graham & Sons: Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective
1965 Whitney: Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective