Edwin Dickinson and Friends at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Edwin Dickinson, Interior, oil on beaverboard, 1916, Philadelphia Museum of Art The tantalizing composition above challenges us to try to explain what's going on in this pile of figures. Exceptionally odd as it is it's so well painted it's compelling. It's one of the oils by Edwin Dickinson that has recently entered the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This week we drove up from Baltimore to the Philadelphia Museum of Art . To mark the gift the museum recently received of six oils by the painter Edwin Dickinson (American 1891-1978) Kathleen Foster, the museum's Senior Curator of American Art, organized Between Nature and Abstraction: Edwin Dickinson and Friends. The show pairs Dickinson's work with that of artists whose work and time intersect Dickinson's. The exhibition concludes Feb. 10, 2019- if you hurry you can see it. Edwin Dickinson, Self Portrait, oil on canvas, 1940 Philadelphia Museum of Art The show's t...