Composition with Still Life
1933 · Oil on canvas
8' 1" x 6' 5 3/4" (246.4 x 197.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Edwin Dickinson
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PaintingPhotorealism
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None documented
12
Institutional Exhibitions
3
Works in Collection
9
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- • Photorealism
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800�1950
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1976
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Ways of Looking
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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American Drawings and Watercolors: A Selection from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969–1970
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Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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John S. Newberry: A Memorial Exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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Edwin Dickinson was an American painter known for his meticulously detailed figurative and still-life compositions executed in oil. Working primarily from the 1920s onward, he developed a precise, almost photorealistic approach that emphasized intimate domestic interiors and draped fabric forms. His practice centered on close observation and technical mastery of light and shadow, producing works of quiet intensity that resisted the dominant abstraction of his era. Dickinson maintained a studio-based practice focused on sustained study from life.
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