Edwin Dickinson Exhibition at PAAM

Get to know artist Edwin Dickinson in this informative gallery talk with PAAM's Executive Director, Christine McCarthy. Video Credit: Andrea Mitchell


About the Exhibition:

Edwin Dickinson in Provincetown, 1912-1937
July 20 - September 23, 2007

The exhibition Edwin Dickinson: The Provincetown Years, 1912-1937 curated around the paintings, prints, and drawings done during the 25 years that American modernist painter Edwin Dickinson (1891-1978) resided and worked in Provincetown, Massachusetts from 1912-1938. He is considered a "painter's painter" due to his ambitious, multifigured compositions of ambiguous and fanciful content within complex spacial compositions. The show is curated from many unknown works from private collections as well as drawing on many of his better-known pieces, and includes numerous graphic works of Provincetown locales.

Dickinson was honored with three earlier single-artists shows at the Provincetown Art Association (of which he was a founding member) held in 1948 and 1967 with a retrospective in 1976. This is the first exhibition devoted to Dickinson to be held at PAAM since the artists death in 1978. His history within the community is conveyed through the subjects within his work. Contemporary audiences are provided with an opportunity to examine the life and career of an artist within the context of the town that was central to his art and life.

Provincetown was one of the major centers for the development of 20th century modernism in this country, and Dickinson was a friend and colleague of many well-known artists who helped establish Provincetown as central within the concerns of contemporary art in the early years of the last century. His practice was infuential to and informed by the New York School of Abstract Expressionists, whom he was associated with in Provincetown and New York. His work is in the collections of numerous museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Pennslyvania Acadamy of the Fine Arts, MOMA, The Metropolitan Museum, and The Chrysler Museum, among others.

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