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Title:Bear, Sculpture Fragments
Artist:Edwin Dickinson (American, Seneca Falls, New York 1891–1978 Orleans, Massachusetts)
Date:1944
Medium:Graphite and charcoal on paper
Dimensions:12 1/2 x 10 1/8 in. (31.8 x 25.7 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Isabel Bishop Wolff, 1988
Accession Number:1988.285.4
Inscription: Signed and dated (center left): Edwin DIckinson, 1944
the artist (from 1944; sold to Waddell); Catherine Hughes Waddell, New York (her gift to Wolff); Harold Wolff, New York (by 1959–d. 1962); his widow, Isabel Bishop Wolff, New York (1962–d. 1988; her bequest to MMA)
Boston University Art Gallery. "Edwin Dickinson: Retrospective Exhibition," March 7–April 4, 1959, nos. 5–13 (one of Series of Nine Drawings of New York City; lent by Dr. Harold Wolff, New York).
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Edwin Dickinson," October 20–November 28, 1965, no. 137 (as "Sculpture Fragments," lent by Isabel Bishop Wolff).
New York. American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. "Memorial Exhibition: Edwin Dickinson, Charles Eames, Eugene Francis Savage, Edward Durell Stone, Stow Wengenroth," November 19–December 30, 1979, no. 36 (as "Sculpture Fragments," lent by Isabel Bishop Wolff, New York).
New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Art Gallery. "Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940–1960," January 17–March 26, 1982, no. 45 (as "Sculpture Fragments," lent by Isabel Bishop Wolff, New York).
Montgomery, Ala. Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. "Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940–1960," April 15–June 13, 1982, no. 45.
College Park. Art Gallery, University of Maryland. "Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940–1960," September 7–October 18, 1982, no. 45.
Buffalo. Albright-Knox Art Gallery. "Edwin Dickinson: Dreams and Realities," April 27–July 14, 2002, no. 87.
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. "Edwin Dickinson: Dreams and Realities," September 21–December 1, 2002, extended to January 12, 2003, no. 87.
New York. National Academy of Design. "Edwin Dickinson: Dreams and Realities," January 29–April 13, 2003, no. 87.
Lloyd Goodrich. The Drawings of Edwin Dickinson. New Haven, 1963, p. 17, colorpl. 44, calls it "Sculpture Fragments".
Greta Berman and Jeffrey Wechsler. Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940–1960. Exh. cat., Rutgers University Art Gallery. New Brunswick, N. J., 1981, pp. 119–20, 188, no. 45, fig. 146.
Douglas Dreishpoon inEdwin Dickinson: Dreams and Realities. Exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. New York, 2002, pp. 37, 47 n. 60, p. 109, no. 87, ill. p. 199, notes that the French magazine "Tricolor" commissioned ten drawings of New York subjects, including this one; adds that after the commission was cancelled, Catherine Hughes Waddell, the artist's cousin, purchased the drawings and gave them to Harold Wolff.
John L. Ward. Edwin Dickinson: A Critical History of His Paintings. Newark, Del., 2003, p. 228 n. 98.
Ken Johnson. "Painter's Grief Unfolds in Gloomy Allegories." New York Times (March 21, 2003), p. E41, generally discusses the drawings shown in Exh. New York 2003.
Helen Dickinson Baldwin. The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [edwindickinson.org], 2021 (accessed), no. 1044, ill., notes that it was drawn after a bear sculpture in the Central Park Zoo cafeteria.
Edwin Dickinson (American, Seneca Falls, New York 1891–1978 Orleans, Massachusetts)
1938
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