Cap Fréhel

(428)
1941–45
Wellfleet, MA
Oil on canvas
20 x 23 in. (50.8 x 58.4 cm)
Signed on top: "E W Dickinson"
Inscribed in rectangle at bottom: "CAP FRÉHEL La Fauconnière / C du N" [Côtes du Nord]
Janice Tworkov Brustlein (Biala)
Photo: Bruce White

Notes

Notes: Painted in Wellfleet, MA, from a postcard, July 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, August, 2, 3, 4, 14, 15 (journal), from a postcard. ED again painted on "Alain's 'Cap Fréhel'", in 1945 (journal). Cap Fréhel, 60 meters high, is on the Brittany coast and he visited it August 28, 1938, (journal). To AWS, January 12, 1939, he recalls the previous September 21st when in the evening he "took a walk, as I wanted to see the great Cap Fréhel [sic] Light blinking."

Provenance

Private collection, Anonymous loan to Princeton University
Janice Tworkov Brustlein (Biala)
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

Exhibition History

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