Babcock Galleries

 

Edwin Dickinson In Retrospect

Edwin Dickinson was an enormously consequential and innovative painter described by Elaine de Kooning as “a great artist [who] reconciles poetry with perspective,” and who Jack Tworkov acclaimed as “the greatest artist America produced-in any century.”  Indeed, Dickinson’s visual innovations and technical fluency had significant currency with the Abstract Expressionists who, in the early 1950s, regularly invited him to exhibit with them at the Stable Gallery.  The Museum of Modern Art’s landmark 1952 “15 Americans” exhibition, curated by Dorothy C. Miller, included works by Dickinson, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, William Baziotes, Clyfford Still, Bradley Tomlin and Richard Lippold.  Dickinson had important solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and was the lead American artist at the 1968 Venice Biennale.  

This exhibition surveys Dickinson’s paintings from 1911 to 1955 and explores in depth his important stylistic innovations during the 1920s through the 1940s:  innovations that attracted the attention and admiration of the likes of Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky and Jack Tworkov.  Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, “de Kooning: A Retrospective,” will find Dickinson’s work to be of particular interest.  

Babcock Galleries has represented the heirs of Edwin Dickinson for more than 20 years.

  • November 28, 2011 - January 27, 2012