"Edwin Dickinson In Retrospect" Exhibition
Driscoll Babcock Galleries
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"Edwin Dickinson In Retrospect"— the gallery’s 6th solo exhibition dedicated to the artist— surveys Dickinson’s paintings from 1911 to 1955, exploring his stylistic innovations from the 1920s through the 1940s, which attracted the attention and admiration of the likes of Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and Jack Tworkov.
Elaine de Kooning described Dickinson as “a great artist [who] reconciles poetry with perspective.” His visual innovations and technical fluency had significant currency with the Abstract Expressionists. He regularly accepted invitations in the 1950s to exhibit with them at the Stable Gallery, but the romantic and representational elements of his artwork continued to defy the boundaries of any single art movement. Dickinson remained an independent visionary painter, and from the 1920s through the 1970s was among the most respected and prominent artists in America.
The exhibition features a range of the artist’s work, including his complex, dark “symbolic” paintings, intense self-portraits, rapidly executed “premier coup” landscapes, still life and nudes, that are harbingers of Abstract Expressionism.
[Image: Edwin Dickinson "Villa Zingarella" (1938) Oil on canvas 23.5 x 28.5 in.]
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Schedule
from November 28, 2011 to January 28, 2012