The Hills

The Hills

Preston DickinsonWW-1919-068602
1919·oil on canvas·24 x 27 in. (61.0 x 68.5 cm.)

Catalogue

Year
1919
Dimensions
24 x 27 in. (61.0 x 68.5 cm.)

Artist

Preston Dickinson
Preston Dickinson

Painting

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.

New York, NY, USA

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Year
1919
Dimensions
24 x 27 in. (61.0 x 68.5 cm.)
Watts ID
WW-1919-068602

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Artist

Preston Dickinson

Preston Dickinson

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