Edwin Dickinson In Retrospect

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Babcock Galleries is proud to present Edwin Dickinson In Retrospect—the gallery’s 6th solo exhibition dedicated to the artist. This show 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. Edwin Dickinson In Retrospect will feature 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. Visitors to The Museum of Modern Art’s current exhibition, de Kooning: A Retrospective, may find Dickinson’s work to be a revelation.

• Contact:
• Lyle Dawson, Director
• ldawson@babcockgalleries.com
• 212 767 1852