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Nov212016

Preston Dickinson: A Fine Precisionist Lost Too Soon

DateMonday, November 21, 2016 at 9:14AM

Preston Dickinson - Industry - oil on canvas - 29 1/8 x 18 1/4 in. (74.0 x 46.5 cm) - Smithsonian American Art Museum (click photo for larger image)(William) Preston Dickinson (1889-1930) grew up in New York, where he worked as an office boy in a marine architect’s firm. One of the partners of the company was so impressed by the young boy’s sketches that he offered to pay for his tuition at the Art Students League.

Dickinson studied at the League for four years, then traveled to France, where he sketched at the Louvre and exhibited at the Salons. On his return to New York, he painted images of Manhattan and the Harlem River while selling socks door-to-door to support himself. 

Dickinson moved to Spain in 1930 but died a few months later from pneumonia, at the age of forty-one.

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