Long Point Light

(856)

1933

Provincetown, MA

Pencil on paper

9 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. (23.5 x 31.8 cm)

Signed, dated on right: "E W Dickinson 1933"
Inscribed on left: "Long Pt. Lt."

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase (1986.2.39)

Photo: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Achenbach Foundation

Notes

Notes: Drawn in Provincetown, MA. ED family frequently sailed or rowed there to picnic.

[The lighthouse of 1875 is at the very tip of Cape Cod. To its right is a triangular structure called a "fog-bell tower." It held a 2,000 pound bell struck by an automated mechanism every thirty seconds during heavy"peasoop"fog. The man at left of the bell is likely the lighthouse keeper.]

Provenance

Richard Parmenter

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor

Exhibition History

1961 James Graham & Sons: Edwin Dickinson, Retrospective, as "Long Point"

1982b NAD: Art Students League Benefit Sale

1986 James Graham & Sons: Edwin Dickinson, 1891-1978, Rare Perspectives

1989 The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: For the Record: Documents from the Archives of American Art

2007 PAAM: Edwin Dickinson In Provincetown 1912-1937