Winter Sheldrake

Maker Edwin Walter Dickinson (American, 1891 - 1978)

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Date1929

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensionscanvas: 15 × 17 in. (38.1 × 43.2 cm.) frame: 22 1/4 × 24 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (56.5 × 61.6 × 3.2 cm.)

SignedSigned in lower left of recto in paint: E W Dickinson

InscribedInscribed on verso at upper center in black ink: Winter, Sheldrake, N.Y./ Edwin W. Dickinson (1929)/ Provincetown, Mass. Signed in lower left of recto in paint: E W Dickinson Label on verso at upper left: Object / Artist/ Size No. / JAMES GRAHAM & SONS/ 1014 MADISON AVENUE/ NEW YORK 21, N.Y. typed on label: Winter, Sheldrake/ 1929/ Edwin Dickinson/ 15x 17 Label on verso at upper left: Spingville High School Art Ass'n, Inc./ To be Detached and Affixed to the Painting/ Title (black ink) now Scene/ Artist (black ink) Edwin W. Dickinson/ (black ink) Return to Provincetown, Mass. Label on verso at upper right: NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 205 W. State St.. Trenton, N.J. 08625/ EXHIBITION/ DATES (typed) Dickinson, WINTER, SHELDRAKE, N.Y./ LENDER (typed) Graham Gallery/ ---/ Stamped on lower center of label in black ink: COLLECTION OF/ DONALD TREIMAN Label on verso at lower left: BURCHFIELD CENTER/ BUFFALO STATE/ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE/ 1300 ELMWOOD AVENUE, BUFFALO, N.Y. 14222/ TELEPHONE (716) 862-6011/ (typed) EDWIN DICKINSON TRIBUTE EXHIBITION/ Sept. 18-Nov. 6, 1977 Burchfield Center, Buffalo/ Nov. 20-Dec. 23, 1977 Herbert F. Johnson Museum/ of Art, Ithaca/ Jan. 15- Feb. 26, 1978 Albany Museum of History &/ Art, Albany Inscribed on lower left of label in graphite: #43 Inscribed on tape holding label in black ink: SIGNED LOWER LEFT Label on verso at center: GRAHAM GALLERY 1014 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK 10021 Inscribed on label in red ink: Burchfield/ 77 Label on verso at center: GRAHAM GALLERY 1014 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK 10021 Inscribed on label in black ink: PRATT/ March 22 Label on verso at center right: ACA/ GALLERIES/ 21 East 67th St./ New York, N.Y./ 10021/ (212) 628-2440/ ARTIST (blue ink) Edwin Dickinson/ TITLE (blue ink) Winter, Sheldrake, NY 1929/ MEDIUM (blue ink) oil on board/ SIZE (blue ink) 16 x 18 inches/ PHOTO #___ LOC.___PRICE___ Label on verso at lower right, typed: EDWIN W. DICKINSOn 1891-1978/ WINTER, SHELDRAKE, 1929

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Donald Treiman in honor of Joyce Treiman

Status

Not on view

Label TextDickinson painted this landscape in Sheldrake, a rural village on Lake Cayuga in far upstate New York. His limited color palette, consisting of mainly white and silvery gray, conveys the extreme cold of winter in the region. Dickinson's family had owned a cottage in Sheldrake since 1897, and he would often walk in the surrounding woods looking for a spot that interested him visually. As with the monumental Toward Mrs. Driscoll's (also on this wall), Winter Sheldrake was painted outdoors in one sitting, a procedure known as premier coup.

Object number2005.17