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Preston Dickinson 1889·1930 University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Sheldon Museum of Art Catalogues and Publications Sheldon Museum of Art 1980 Preston Dickinson 1889·1930 Ruth Cloudman Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Norman Geske Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska- Lincoln Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sheldonpubs Cloudman, Ruth and Geske, Norman, "Preston Dickinson 1889·1930" (1980). Sheldon Museum of Art Catalogues and Publications. 100. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sheldonpubs/100 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Sheldon Museum of Art at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sheldon Museum of Art Catalogues and Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. PRESTON DICKINSON 1889-1930 Covee StlIl LIfe with Round Plate l.'niYt'fSity C()lkcti(lll, ll()ward S. \yils(Jtl ~lL'Jl1{)rial C{lllccti()Il Frotltispil'cc: Phot()graph by ,'\icko[us ~ll1ray, ('( )\It1CSy (If. kssicil :--Hlllllall and the estate of (lroll/() (~:.Ispur(), ( '( ,1k~,ti(J1l III' Rtnh ('1( ludnwn Preston Dickinson 1889·1930 PRESTON DICKINSON 1889-1930 BY RUTH CLOUDMAN An exhibition organized by the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska in collaboration with the Nebraska Art Association, Lincoln. The exhibition will be shown in the following institutions: Sheldon ~Icm01ial Art GalleIv LniYersity of :'\ehraska-LineZJ!n Lincoln, :'\ebraska September 4-0ctober 7, 1979 \\11itney Museum of American Art :'\ew York, :'\ew York December 18, 1979-Fehmary 24, 1980 Lnivcrsity A11 Museum University of :'{ew ~Iexico Albuquerque, New ;\Icxico ;\Iareh 8-April la, 1980 Colorado Splings Fine Alis Center Colorado Springs, Colorado :'-Iay la-June 10, 1980 Georgia Museum of Art University of Georgia Athens, Georgia July l3-August 10, 1980 This project is supported by a grant from the ~ational Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D. C., a Federal Agency and the Lincoln Community Arts Fund. This catalog published by the Nebraska Art Association in September, 1979. Printed at the University of Nebraska Department of Printing and Duplicating Service. Aeknowledgments ~'EBRASIiA ART ASSOCIATION, Lincoln OfficeMi ;\Ir. Elwood K. Thompson-President :'-Irs. William T. GIiffin-Vice President Dr. Philip IIeckman-Vice President .Mr. Congdon E. Paulson-Vice Preside1lt ;\Irs. Barbara Simon-Secretary l'lrs. Littleton KirkpatIick-ColTcsponding Secrctary l'lrs. Elliot I~ustad-Trcasurcr Exhibitions Committee :'-lr. Dale Gibbs, Chairman Mrs. IIale :'-lcCown l'lrs. William II. Brownc, Jr. :'-lrs. Robert Burton ;\1r. Jack n. Campbcll ;\Jrs. Gene Eaton ;\ Irs. Donald Leon F ergnson l'lr. Burket Graf ;\lrs. William T. Griffin ;\lrs. J. Taylor Grecr Mrs. Litlleton Kirkpatrick l'lrs. Wallace Richardson Mrs. Carl If. Rohman ]\lrs. Elliot r~ustad Mrs. Stanley Sands Mr. DUIwood Varner Mrs. Thomas C. Woods, Jr. SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY UniveMiiiy of Nebraska-Lincoln Dr. Roy A. Young-Chancellor Dr. Xed Hedges - Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs l'1r. Norman A. Geske-Director Mr. ,Jon Nelson-Assistant to the Director l'1rs. ,Jane Anderson - Director, Education and Extension Services Mr. Dan Ladelv-Director, Sheldon Film Theater ;\lrs. Helen Dt~ven-Secretary Mrs. Ruth York-Assistant Sccretary Mrs. Page Spence-Manager, Art Shop Mr. William Durgin-Guard Mr. James Roberis-Guard l\Is. Maxine Potter-Custodian Collaborating Museums Whitney l'luseum of Amelican Ali-Thomas K. Annstrong III, Director Patterson Sims, Associate Curator, Permanent Collection University Art Museum, University of Kew l\Iexico-Van Deren Coke, Director . Cleta Downey, Curator of Prints Colorado Springs Fine Arts Ccnter-Paul Piazza, Director William Henning, Curator Georgia l\luseum of Ali, University of Georgia-William B. Paul, Director LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION Institutions Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Acadcmy, Andover, Massachusetts Albright-Knox Art Gallcry, Buffalo, l':ew York Art Studcnts League of l':cw York, l':ew York Cleveland Museum of Art, Clevcland, Ohio Colorado Springs Fine Aris Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio Dartmouth College ;\Iuseum and Galleries, Hanover, New Hampshire Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, l\!ichigan Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, \Vashington, D. C. ,Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Xebraska Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts ;\Ietropolitan l\luseum of Art, New York, l':ew York l\lunson-Williams-Proclm Institute, Utica, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Museum of Modern Art, l'\ew York, New York l':ebraska Art Association, Lincoln, ~ebraska The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Phillips Collection, \\'ashington, D. C. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington Smith College l\luseum of lUi, l':orthampton, Massachusetts Toledo ;\Iuseum of Art, Tolcdo, Ohio University of l'\cbraska-Lincoln, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, l':ebraska WadswOlih Atheneum, IImiford, Connecticut Walker Art Center, Minncapolis, Minncsota \\Thitney Muscum of American Ari, l'\ew York, New York Private Colleetions Estate of Catherinc L. Bacon Mr. and Mrs. Irwin L. Bcrnstein, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Blount, Inc. Collection, ;\lontgomery, Alabama Mr. and Mrs. A Abbott Coblentz, Shrewsbury, ;\lassachusetts The Familv of ;YIrs. Fred ;\1. Dcwecse, Lincol~, i'iebraska Ella M. Fc;shay, ~ew York, l'\ew York Mr. and ;\Irs. George H. IIeyman, Jr., New York, New York Dr. ?olmitz JagendOlf, New York, ~ew York Mr. Stephan Lion Collection, Xew York, ~e\\' York Nomw and John Marin, Cape Split Place, Addison, Maine ;\1r. and ;\11's. 1. David Orr, Cedarhurst, l'\ew York Sidney Sass, l'\ew York, l'\ew York Dr. & Mrs. Alex Stone, Moline, Illinois Dealers Kraushaar Galleries, Ne\\' York, Xew York Peter Davidson & Co., Inc., Xc\\' York, Xc\\' York Special acknowledgment to "7. Rohert :\ix of the University of Georgia, and L David Orr for transparencies prO\irlcd fin- reproduction. Foreword The present exhibition represents the first attempt to review and assess the work of Preston Dickinson, an artist who has bcen little more than a name on an occasional picture in successive exhibitions of the work of the pioneers of modern art in the United States. This has been the case in spite of the fact that Dickinson is \vell represented in our public collections. Indeed, the seventeen examples of his work in the Ferdinand Howald Collection alone would constitute a reasonably defmitive exhibition in them­ selves, and the Still Life with Yellow Green Chair in that collection, which was published in a color reproduction by Raymond and Raymond has become a modestly famous example of modem Amcrican art in public school and librmy collections across the country. His presence in the group of painters generally known as the Precisionists, which ineludes Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler and Niles Spencer, is conspicuous, yet his contribution to this important post-cubist phase of American painting has not been identified. As the research which underlies this exhibition will show, there is evidence in the twenty odd years of his artistic activity of an extraordinary breadth of contact with almost the entire range of European modernism. From the outset, only touched, but, nevertheless, liberated by the generic impreSSionism in the teaching of \Yilliam ~'Ierritt Chase, his development seems to contain reflections of Cezanne, of Cubism, of the color research of Svnchromism, of the dvnamics of Futurism and evcn echoes of the Vorticism of Wyndham Lewis. T~ all thiS, theoretical a~d doctrinaire as these influences may be, one must add the instances of countervailing emotionalism which seem to match both the mood and style of the German cxpressionist painters of Die Bruckc and Der Blaue Reiter. If this suggests only a somewhat unusual eclecticism, the evidence of the exhibition will show again that Dickinson's susceptibility to the many and various stimuli of the period docs not overbalance the distinctive personality that was his own, capable of a lyricism of color and spatial organization which was inimitable. We have been particularly fortunate in haVing the opportunity to support the scholarly initiative of Ruth Cloudman whose work on Dickinson hes;an in 1977. Her search for the facts of Dickinson's biography and for the location of his work has been exhaustive and while there are, inevitably, gaps and uncertain­ ties, her text and catalogue must, for the present, be regarded as the essential basis for whatever future study of the artist may occur. We have also been fortunate in the support of the ~ebraska Art Association and the National Endow­ ment for the Arts. In the history of the Art Association, this exhibition takes its place in a long series of such efforts focused on the history and contemporary practice of American art. In acknovvledging the interest and cooperation of the institutions who are sharing the exhibition with us, \ve must also express our thanks and our regret to the half dozen additional institutions who expressed a wish to participate. Our special appreciation goes, of course, to the public collections, to the private collectors and to the dealers
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