Study for An Anniversary

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Artist/Maker Edwin W. Dickinson (American, 1891 - 1978)

Date1920

MediumPencil on paper

DimensionsSheet: 8 in. × 4 11/16 in. (20.3 × 11.9 cm) Frame: 14 1/16 × 10 3/4 in. (35.7 × 27.3 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Daniel W. Dietrich II, Class of 1964

Object number2016.1.19

Not on view

Collections

American Art

Additional Details

Alternate Titles Study for An Anniversary

Exhibition History 1977-78
Buffalo, NY (State University College at Buffalo, Charles Burchfield Center). "Edwin Dickinson Tribute Exhibition," September 18 - November 6, 1977 (cat no. 48, not illustrated), travelled to: Ithaca, NY (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University) November 20 - December 23, 1977; Albany, NY (Albany Institute of History and Art) January 15 - February 26, 1978;

1967
Provincetown, MA (Provincetown Art Association, Hawthorne Memorial Gallery). "Selections from the Work of Edwin Dickinson," August 3 - September 4, 1967.

Provenance 2016: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College) by bequest of Daniel W. Dietrich II;
by 1977 - 2016: Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Dietrich II;
?: James Graham & Sons, New York, NY, acquired from the artist.

Markings Marks: none noted.

Signature Signed "E W Dickinson" along right edge in pencil.

Inscribed "working drawing / for "An Anniversary" / 1920 / Provincetown" at lower right in pencil; "Top" at lower right corner in pencil; "69" at center of right edge in red pen; "II [roman numeral two]" at center right; "darkest here" at upper right in pencil; "(solid) I branches black against dark (Warmer) / II interlacing of dead boughs with cones / green needles with dark small / branches in front holding them" along upper edge in pencil; "sand begins here" at upper left in pencil; "I [roman numeral one]" at lower left in pencil; "silhouette / gray branches" at lower left corner in pencil.