Mayo's Beach from Indian Neck

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1951

Wellfleet, MA

Oil on panel

12 1/2 x 16 1/8 in. (31.8 x 41 cm)

Signed top left: "E W Dickinson"
Dated on bottom: "1951"
Inscribed on left: "SIMBA"

Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Albert M. Greenfield and Elizabeth M. Greenfield Collection

Notes

Painted in Wellfleet, MA, August 2 (journal). Painting also titled "Simba" and "Three in One." Simba was the name of ECD's sailboat. ED note: it a "forerunner to the oil `South Wellfleet Inn.'""N.W. wind slanting horizon downward toward right." Journal noted August 2, 1951: "painted a 16/12 oval `3 in 1' looking NNW"

Provenance

Mr. & Mrs. Albert M. Greenfield

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Exhibition History

1951 ASL: Diamond Jubilee

1954 Stable Gallery: Paintings by Edwin Dickinson, as "Simba"

1958 Cushman Gallery: as "Simba"

1961 James Graham & Sons: Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, as "Mayo's Beach from Indian Neck"

1965 Whitney: Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, as "Simba"