Between Nature and Abstraction: Edwin Dickinson and Friends

Edwin Dickinson’s inventive works set him apart from any other American painter of the twentieth century. 

Drawing from nature, heroes like El Greco and Cézanne, and the many styles of modernism, Dickinson worked with a singular independence. See how he and contemporaries Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, and others followed their own stars and pursued idiosyncratic paths to modernism.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website

Image: Edwin Walter Dickinson, (American, 1891 – 1978)  Still Life, Lascaux, 1953. Oil on canvas, 37× 30 1/8 inches (94 × 76.5 cm) Framed: 44 1/2 × 37 5/8 × 2 3/4 inches (113 ×95.6 × 7 cm)  The Albert M. Greenfield and Elizabeth M. Greenfield Collection, 1974. 1974-178-26