Paris Windows

(528)

1952

Paris, France

Oil on panel

12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)

Signed top left: "E W Dickinson"
Inscribed, dated lower right: "Paris / 1952"

Private collection

Photo: Adam Hurwitz

Notes

Notes: Painted in Paris, France June 23, 24, 25, 26 (journal) from hotel window at 3, rue Bonaparte. To FD June 24."At a distance my piece looks just like a non-objective; up closer, it looks just like the side of a house." In 1958 painting was awarded the Benjamin Altman (landscape) prize by the National Academy of Design.

Provenance

Gardner & Ruth Jencks

Private collection

Exhibition History

1953 National Arts Club

1953 Stable Gallery

1954 Art Institute of Chicago

1957–58 Cornell University: Edwin Dickinson, Visiting Artist: An Exhibition of Paintings, 1912-1956

1958 Cushman Gallery

1958 NAD

1965 Whitney: Edwin Dickinson. Major retrospective, as "Windows, Paris"

1967b PAA: Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson

1968–69 Venice Biennial: The Figurative Tradition in Recent American Art: Edwin Dickinson

1976 PAAM: Edwin Dickinson Retrospective

1980–81 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Edwin Dickinson, Selected Landscapes