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Title:Villa La Mouette
Artist:Edwin Dickinson (American, Seneca Falls, New York 1891–1978 Orleans, Massachusetts)
Date:1938
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:23 5/8 x 28 3/4 in. (60 x 73 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1938
Object Number:38.100
Inscription: Signed (upper left): E W Dickinson; inscribed and dated (upper right): Sanary / var / 1938
the artist, Sanary-sur-Mer, France (1938; sold through the Gallery Georgette Passedoit, New York to MMA)
New York. Gallery Georgette Passedoit. "Paintings by Edwin W. Dickinson," April 11–30, 1938, extended to May 7, 1938, no. 6.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Contemporary American Paintings from the Museum's Collection," May 8, 1939–January 1, 1940, no catalogue.
Wellesley, Mass. Art Museum of Wellesley College. "Exhibition of Paintings by Edwin W. Dickinson," October 15–November 5, 1940, no. 4.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "National Art Week and the Museum: Paintings by Living Americans," November 25–December 1, 1940, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. brochure (p. 5).
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "15 Americans," April 9–July 27, 1952, unnumbered cat. (p. 45).
Palazzo Reale, Naples. "25 anni di pittura americana, 1933–1958," October 30–November 29, 1959 (circulated by United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C.), unnumbered cat. (p. 10).
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. "25 anni di pittura americana, 1933–1958," December 12, 1959–January 10, 1960 (circulated by United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C.), unnumbered cat.
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome. "25 anni di pittura americana, 1933–1958," January 23–February 21, 1960 (circulated by United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C.), unnumbered cat.
Milan. Palazzo della Permanente. "25 anni di pittura americana, 1933–1958," March 1–22, 1960 (circulated by United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C.), unnumbered cat.
Amerika Haus, Berlin. "Moderne Amerikanische Malerei 1930–1958," April 10–May 16, 1960 (circulated by United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C.), no. 12.
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. "Moderne Amerikanische Malerei 1930–1958," June 3–26, 1960 (circulated by United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C.), no. 12.
Göteborg. Göteborgs Konstmuseum. "Modernt Amerikanskt Måleri, 1932–1958," July 15–August 7, 1960 (circulated by United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C.), no. 12.
City of York Art Gallery. "Modern American Painting, 1930–1958," August 15–September 20, 1960, extended to September 30, 1960 (circulated by United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C.), no. 12.
New York. Graham Gallery. "Edwin Dickinson," February 1–March 11, 1961, not in catalogue.
Nashville. Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood. "Edwin Dickinson," November 15–December 5, 1961, no catalogue.
Columbia, S. C. Columbia Museum of Art. "Edwin Dickinson," January 2–26, 1962, no catalogue.
Pittsburgh. Chatham College. "Edwin Dickinson," February 2–25, 1962, no catalogue.
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin. "Edwin Dickinson," May 1962, no catalogue.
San Diego. Art Center in La Jolla. "Edwin Dickinson," June 1962, no catalogue.
Chattanooga, Tenn. George Thomas Hunter Gallery of Art. "Edwin Dickinson," September 1962, no catalogue.
Auburn, Ala. Auburn University. "Edwin Dickinson," October 1962, no catalogue.
Quincy, Ill. Quincy Art Club. "Edwin Dickinson," November 1962, no catalogue.
Savannah, Ga. Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences. "Edwin Dickinson," January 1963, no catalogue.
Wilmington. Delaware Art Center. "Edwin Dickinson," February 15–March 17, 1963, no catalogue.
Storrs. University of Connecticut. "Edwin Dickinson," April 1963, no catalogue.
Madison, Wisc. Madison Art Association. "Edwin Dickinson," May 1963, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. checklist.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Edwin Dickinson," October 20–November 28, 1965, no. 48.
Katonah, N. Y. Katonah Gallery. "Edwin Dickinson," June 12–July 12, 1966, no catalogue (checklist no. 1).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue.
American Embassy, Moscow. "American Painting, 1830–1970," opened June 1974, no. 17.
Washington, D. C. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. "Edwin Dickinson: Selected Landscapes," September 18–December 14, 1980, no. 25.
Louisville, Ky. Speed Art Museum. "Edwin Dickinson: Selected Landscapes," January 19–March 1, 1981, no. 25.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "14 Americans," July 16, 1990–January 2, 1991, no catalogue.
Mobile, Ala. Fine Arts Museum of the South. "Modernism and American Painting of the 1930s," February 12–March 28, 1993, unnumbered cat. (p. 9).
"Art Throughout America. New York: The Metropolitan Acquires Four Native Canvases." Art News 36 (July 16, 1938), p. 17.
"Debut This Year, Metropolitan Museum Honors Them." Art Digest 12 (August 1, 1938), p. 7, ill.
Carlyle Burrows. "Four New Canvases Bought By Museum." New York Herald Tribune (July 17, 1938), p. E5, ill.
J[eannette]. L[owe]. "New Exhibitions of the Week: Latest Works by a Capable American Painter, Edwin Dickinson." Art News 36 (April 30, 1938), p. 12.
"Metropolitan Buys Native Canvases." New York Times (July 17, 1938), p. X7, ill.
P[reston]. R[emington]. "Notes: Contemporary American Paintings." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 33 (July 1938), p. 169.
Elizabeth McCausland. "Gallery Index." Parnassus 11 (April 1939), pp. 38–39.
Robert Beverly Hale. 100 American Painters of the 20th Century: Works Selected from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1950, ill. p. 47.
Jacob Getlar Smith. "Edwin Dickinson: American Mystic." American Artist 21 (January 1957), ill. p. 58.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 169–70, ill.
Joseph Shannon. Edwin Dickinson: Selected Landscapes. Exh. cat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., 1980, pp. 13, 20, no. 25, ill. n.p. (color).
John Paul Driscoll. "Edwin Walter Dickinson: An Iconological Interpretation of the Major Symbolical Paintings." PhD diss., Pennsylvania State University, 1985, pp. 2–3, 15 n. 2, p. 163, pl. 10.
Jeffrey Morgan. "Brun-Rouge: An American Enigma." Modern Painters 6 (Autumn 1993), ill. p. 64 (color).
Douglas Dreishpoon inEdwin Dickinson: Dreams and Realities. Exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. New York, 2002, pp. 20, 33.
Helen Dickinson Baldwin inEdwin Dickinson: Dreams and Realities. Exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. New York, 2002, p. 216.
John L. Ward. Edwin Dickinson: A Critical History of His Paintings. Newark, Del., 2003, pp. 33, 158–59, 167, fig. 38.
Helen Dickinson Baldwin. The Edwin Dickinson Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [edwindickinson.org], 2021 (accessed), no. 284, ill.
Edwin Dickinson (American, Seneca Falls, New York 1891–1978 Orleans, Massachusetts)
1938
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