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Still Life
1930 · Pastel on paper, mounted on board
20 13/16 × 26 3/8 in. (52.8 × 67 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Preston Dickinson
American, 1889
New York, NY, USA
PaintingGeometric Abstraction
Representation
None documented
17
Institutional Exhibitions
21
Works in Collection
29
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4
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1954–1955
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American Paintings from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948–1949
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The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1945–1946
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Painting, Sculpture, Prints
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1944
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Preston Dickinson was an American painter and printmaker working in the early modernist idiom, known for precisionist still lifes and industrial landscapes executed in oil and watercolor. Active in New York during the 1920s, he developed a distinctive approach to geometric abstraction rooted in observed reality, particularly the architecture of factories, bridges, and domestic interiors. His work bridges American Precisionism and European modernism, employing flattened planes and sharp-edged forms to distill complex spatial relationships into a formal language of clarity and restraint.
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