Lot 30
  • 30

Preston Dickinson 1891 - 1930

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Preston Dickinson
  • Still Life No. 1
  • signed Dickinson (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 18 by 24 inches
  • (45.7 by 61 cm)
  • Painted in 1928.

Provenance

Daniel Gallery, New York
John L. Handy, by 1930
Maynard Walker Gallery, New York, by 1936
Seattle Art Museum through the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection, 1936

Exhibited

Lincoln, Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico, University Art Museum; Colorado Springs, Colorado, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Athens, Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art, Preston Dickinson, 1889-1930, September 1979-August 1980, no. 56, pp. 32, 160, illustrated p. 161

Literature

Creative Arts 3, August 1928, p. xxxix, illustrated
Edwin Alden Jewell, Americans, New York, 1930, no. 12, illustrated fig. 21
Samuel Kootz, "Preston Dickinson," Creative Arts 8, May 1931, p. 339, illustrated
Seattle Art Museum Annual Report, 1936, Seattle, Washington, p. 9
Seattle Art Museum Handbook: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Seattle, Washington, 1951, p. 126, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The canvas is unlined. There is a 2-inch line which appears to be pencil on the surface in the upper left quadrant. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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