Artist

Edwin Dickinson

born Seneca Falls, NY 1891-died Orleans, MA 1978
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Edwin Dickinson seated in front of Toward Mrs. Driscoll's, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001486
Also known as
  • Edwin W. Dickinson
  • E. W. Dickinson
Born
Seneca Falls, New York, United States
Died
Orleans, Massachusetts, United States
Active in
  • Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States
Nationalities
  • American
Biography

Painter whose highly individual, representational work was well regarded by modernist schools for its imaginative and skillful display of perspective drawing, color values and Surreal overtones. The Fossil Hunters (1926–28) is a well-known and controversial painting. Dickinson studied art with Charles Hawthorne.

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)