Sidney Dickinson
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Sidney (sometimes Sydney) Edward Dickinson (November 28, 1890 – April, 1980) was an American painter.
Dickinson was born in
Dickinson first exhibited with the National Academy in 1915, hanging a self-portrait at that year's winter show. He received a Julius Hallgarten Prize on the occasion of his third show with the organization, in 1917, and continued to exhibit there for nearly fifty years. He earned another Hallgarten Prize in 1924; the Isaac N. Maynard Prize in 1933 and 1938; the Benjamin Altman Prize in 1936; and the Andrew Carnegie Prize in 1942. He served on the Academy Council from 1930 until 1933.[1] He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1931.[3]
Dickinson was active as an instructor for many years, teaching at the Art Students League in 1919–1920 and heading a life class at the National Academy from 1928 to 1931 and again from 1939 to 1943. In the summers of 1943 and 1944 he returned to the League to teach, and became a regular faculty member there in 1949, retiring in 1973. Pupils included Albert Wasserman,[4] James Rosenquist,[5] Richard Pionk,[6] and Robert Neffson.[7] Dickinson kept a studio in Carnegie Hall until retiring to Windsor, Vermont, where he would die, in the later 1970s.[1]
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Dickinson was a prolific portraitist; among the artists whose portraits he showed at the Academy are
His children were wildlife biologist Nate Dickinson and mechanical engineer Thorn Watson Dickinson. Dickinson's grandson Charles Dickinson is also a painter.[18]
References
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- ^ "Albert Wasserman". Allied Artists of America. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
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- ^ "February Exhibit at the Geary Gallery in Darien, CT - GearyGallery.com". gearygallery.com. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Robert Neffson". askart.com. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Sidney Edward Dickinson: Alabama Suite". Tfaoi.com. Retrieved 2016-06-17.
- ^ Collection search, National Portrait Gallery
- ^ "Portrait of Paul P. Juley by Sidney E. Dickinson / American Art". si.edu. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Figge Art Museum – D". figgeartmuseum.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ Harvard. "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections James Bryant Conant (1893–1978)". harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ Harvard. "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Alfred Leroy Johnson (1881–1967)". harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Sidney Edward Dickinson – Princeton University Art Museum". princeton.edu. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ United States. Dept. of State (1978). Department of State publication: Department and foreign service series. Department of State.
- ^ "University of Iowa Museum of Art Digital Collection". uiowa.edu. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Charleston Renaissance Gallery". Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ^ "Charles Dickinson – Fine Art". charlesdickinson.net. Retrieved 3 May 2015.