Edwin Dikinson
Villa and Alice
(399)
1941
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
24 x 29 in. (61 x 73.7 cm)
Signed, dated upper right: "E W Dickinson / 1941"
Photo: Eric Mitchell
Notes
Painted in Wellfleet, MA. ED note: "This is a picture of a villa that could not be built. It is entirely imaginary." "I made that particular breach of usual procedure [the unsteadiness of the station point breaches undertaken perspective matters] one other time deliberately and violently in a piece in a oil on canvas of Alice Crowley, apparently asleep and the figure of Alice was made from a drawing of Alice simulating sleep in Buffalo. It has very violent perspective in it." Alice Crowley was a Buffalo model. See "Sleeping Woman", 1939Provenance
Private collection
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Dietrich II
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Exhibition History
1961 James Graham & Sons:
Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective
1963 PAA:
as "Alice and Villa"
1965 Whitney:
Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective
1966 Gilman Galleries:
Edwin Dickinson, Paintings
1966 Katonah Gallery:
Paintings and Drawings by Edwin Dickinson
1966 Pennsylvania Academy:
Paintings by Edwin Dickinson
1970 Bristol Art Museum:
An Exhibition of Paintings by Edwin Dickinson
1970 Cape Cod Conservatory:
Paintings and Drawings by Edwin Dickinson
1970 Wellfleet Art Gallery:
Special Exhibition: Edwin Dickinson, Painting-Drawing, 1911-1950
1980–81 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden:
Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes