Lieutenant Island from Indian Neck

(494)

1946

Wellfleet, MA

Oil on canvas

16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)

Inscribed, dated, signed on left: "24 Aug 1948 To our god daughter Elizabeth Dick ED-FD / 46
E W Dickinson"
Dated, inscribed on right: "21 Aug 46 / ADVS"

Photo: Babcock Galleries

Notes

Painted in Wellfleet, MA, August 21, "(Spence's house, etc) vertical sea weed high tide mark in center.", (journal). The date and inscription on right refer to birthday of ED's sister, Tibi. Inscriptions on left indicate both the painting's date and that of it as a christening gift August 24, 1948 to the goddaughter of ED and FD, Elizabeth "Sandy" Dick, daughter of old friend and Dickinson collector Sheldon Dick.

Provenance

Frances Dickinson

Elizabeth "Sandy" Dick [Durand Hebben]

Scharf Family Collection

Exhibition History

1990b Babcock Galleries: Edwin Dickinson, A Vision of Coast and Sea

1991–92 Sendai Japan: American Realism & Figurative Art, 1955-1990