Art and Images

Portrait of a Woman

Senen Ubiña

MARTIN KANE (SCOTTISH 1958-)

BIRMINGHAM CANAL, 1990

Signed lower left, oil on canvas

CHARLES HODGE MACKIE R.S.A., R.S.W., P.S.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1862-1920)

BASSANO BRIDGE

Coloured woodblock, bears signature lower right

HUBERT VON HERKOMER R.A. (GERMAN/BRITISH 1849-1914)

PORTRAIT OF A TURKISH GIRL - 1879

Signed with initials and dated lower left, watercolour and body colour on paper laid on board

Dickinson studied between 1906 and 1910 at the Art Students League of New York under William Merritt Chase, as well as under Ernest Lawson.  From 1910 to 1914, he lived in Paris, where he studied at the Académie Julian and École des Beaux-Arts, and exhibited his work at the Paris Salon and the Salon des Indépendants.

Dickinson was one of the first American artists to focus on industrial subjects. He was working in the Precisionist mode by 1915, and his depictions of factories and granaries predate those of fellow Precisionists Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth. Dickinson was motivated by a reverence for the benefits of technology and industry to humanity, as well as an interest in its formal qualities.

Experimenting with a variety of techniques and styles, his work showed influence from a number of avant-garde art movements, such as Cubism, Futurism, Fauvism, and Synchromism. His use of color was expressive, showing his influence by the Post-Impressionists and Fauves. His later work, though superficially in a Precisionist style, utilizes off-balance, expressionistic compositions with jagged diagonals. Some of his work in the 1920s was also observed by critics as having an Oriental influence, believed to derive from his studies of Japanese ukiyo-e art.

Friedrich Fehr, Im Klosterstall, 1913

Oil on canvas

Erich Erler, holiday, 1943

Oil on canvas