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Edwin Dickinson Painter American (New York, 1891 - 1978) View objects by this artist.

Beginning in 1909, Dickinson had intended to enter the United States Naval Academy and went to Annapolis for tutoring.  This proved unsuccessful and in 1910, he went to Brooklyn to study at the Pratt Institute.  From 1911-12, he studied with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League.  From 1912 and 1913, he was at the National Academy of Design and the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.  During the summers of 1912-16, he studied at the Cape Cod School of Art, Provincetown, MA.  Also in 1916, he exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.  A year later, he exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.  After a brief period in the Navy, and subsequent travels in Europe, he began, in the early 20s, to teach and exhibit more frequently.  His first one-man show was held at the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, in 1927.  Wellseley College did the same (1942) as did the Museum of Modern Art (1961).  In 1965, the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted a Dickinson retrospective.

Edwin Dickinson's paintings are usually large, dealing with nocturnal worlds in which ambiguous figures and unrelated objects are depicted in mysterious settings, often in half light.  He has written that he approached his paintings without preliminary drawings.  Dickinson was a masterful technician, a traditionalist with a decidedly untraditional vision and subject matter.  His large paintings usually took between two and ten years, and up to 400 sittings, to complete.    


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