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Lot 6

Edwin Dickinson "Nantucket" (1933 Oil)

Estimate: $4,000 - $8,000
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Edwin Walter Dickinson

(American, 1891-1978)

Nantucket, 1933

Oil on board-mounted canvas

9 1/4" x 16"

 

Initialed, titled, and dated to the bottom left corner. Housed in a gilt frame measuring 15 1/4" x 22".

 

Literature: Listed and photographed on EdwinDickinson.org under catalog number 215. Listed in the Edwin Dickinson Tribute Exhibition catalog as number 25. Detailed in the artist's journal as painted on the north coast of Nantucket in August 1933.

 

Exhibition history: Edwin Dickinson Tribute Exhibition, Burchfield Center, Buffalo, New York, Sept.-Nov. 1977, traveled to Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, Nov.-Dec. 1977, traveled to Albany Museum of History & Art, Albany, New York, Jan.-Feb. 1978.

 

Provenance

A private Kansas City collection, Harold Brown, Judy Harvey.

Condition

There is a 2" slice along the right edge of the canvas by the artist's hand, which is stable as mounted (the composition was cut down from a larger canvas by Dickinson as detailed in his journal, and the painting is pictured with the canvas slice in the 1977 exhibition catalog). No touch-ups or in-painting observed under blacklight inspection.

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