Known for his Precisionist style of painting depicting architectural subjects, especially industrial scenes, Preston Dickinson was a native of New York City who studied at the Art Students League... Read full biography
Known for his Precisionist style of painting depicting architectural subjects, especially industrial scenes, Preston Dickinson was a native of New York City who studied at the Art Students League from 1906 to 1910 with George Bellows and Ernest Lawson. Shortly after he left for Paris, where he... Read full biography
Known for his Precisionist style of painting depicting architectural subjects, especially industrial scenes, Preston Dickinson was a native of New York City who studied at the Art Students League from 1906 to 1910 with George Bellows and Ernest Lawson. Shortly after he left for Paris, where he lived from 1915 to 1919 and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais. In Paris, he was much influenced by Cubism, which for him was somewhat modified by his exposure to the work of Paul Cezanne.... Read full biography
Known for his Precisionist style of painting depicting architectural subjects, especially industrial scenes, Preston Dickinson was a native of New York City who studied at the Art Students League from 1906 to 1910 with George Bellows and Ernest Lawson. Shortly after he left for Paris, where he lived from 1915 to 1919 and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais. In Paris, he was much influenced by Cubism, which for him was somewhat modified by his exposure to the work of Paul Cezanne. Returning to New York, he showed at the Daniel Gallery. An inveterate traveler, he returned to Europe in 1930, hoping to live there but died of pneumonia. Source: "Dictionary of American Artists" by Matthew Baigell... Read full biography
Known for his Precisionist style of painting depicting architectural subjects, especially industrial scenes, Preston Dickinson was a native of New York City who studied at the Art Students League from 1906 to 1910 with George Bellows and Ernest Lawson. Shortly after he left for Paris, where he lived from 1915 to 1919 and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais. In Paris, he was much influenced by Cubism, which for him was somewhat modified by his exposure to the work of Paul Cezanne. Returning to New York, he showed at the Daniel Gallery. An inveterate traveler, he returned to Europe in 1930, hoping to live there but died of pneumonia. Source: "Dictionary of American Artists" by Matthew Baigell... Read full biography
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Works on Paper from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art
2016
Rudd, Brandon and Gregory Nosan, Editors; Wally Mason, Director's Mewssage
312 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Modern American Painting 1910-194 Toward A New Perspective (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Agee, William C
24 pages
Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Addison Gallery
512 pages (color)
Still Life The Object in American Art, 1915-1995 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Sims, Lowery/Sabine Rewald
175 pages (color)
City of Ambition Artists and New York, 1900-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Sussman, Elizabeth
144 pages (color)
To Be Modern American Encounters with Cezanne and Company (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Yount, Sylvia/Elizabeth Johns
80 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Precisionism in America 1915-1941 Reordering Reality (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Stavitsky, Gail; Ellen Handy, Miles Orvell et all
160 pages (color)
Ten Precisionist Artists Annotated Bibliographies
1992
Harnsberger, R S/D Henderson
350 pages
American Selections 1850-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Lublin, Mary
163 pages (color)
Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection)
1991
Cleveland Museum of Art
161 pages
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Long Island Landscape Painting Vol ll, The Twentieth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Pisano, Ronald G
168 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Henry Lee McFee & Formalist Realism in American Still Life 1923-1936
1987
Baker, John
148 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum
1987
Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro)
94 pages (color)
Masterworks on Paper from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
1987
Brutvan, Cheryl
168 pages (color)
The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947
1987
Saint Louis Art Museum
225 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of American Art
1986
Munson Williams-Proctor Inst
101 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
American Masterworks on Paper: Drawings, Watercolors and Prints (Hirschl & Adler Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Dreishpoon, Douglas (essay)
63 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
1984
Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)
88 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Images of America Precisionist Painting and Photography (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Tsujimoto, Karen
248 pages (color)
Early American Modernist Painting 1910-1935
1981
Davidson, Abraham A
324 pages (color)
A Kennedy Galleries Selection of American Art for Public and Private Collectors
1981
Kennedy Galleries
81 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Painting
1981
San Diego Museum of Art
240 pages (color)
Buildings Architecture in American Modernism (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
96 pages (color)
Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst
544 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Preston Dickinson 1889-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Cloudman, Ruth H
192 pages (color)
Art of the Twenties (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Lieberman, William S
142 pages
The Phillips Collection In the Making 1920-1930
1979
Phillips, Laughlin and Duncan
96 pages (color)
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
The Modern Spirit American Painting 1908-1935 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Brown, Milton W
96 pages (color)
American Watercolor Painting
1977
Hoopes, Donelson F
208 pages (color)
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
American Painting 1900 to 1932 From the Whitney Museum of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Ballinger, James K
48 pages
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
A Panorama of American Painting The John J McDonough Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Bullard, E John
119 pages (color)
The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward)
284 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures
1974
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
80 pages
A History of American Painting
1973
Bennett, Ian
240 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art
1973
Onn, Gerald (Translator)
0 pages
The Genius of American Painting
1973
Wilmerding, John
352 pages (color)
Not So Long Ago Art of the 1920s in Europe & America (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Heyer, George S Jr
95 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
American Still Life Painting
1971
Gerdts, William; Russell Burke
264 pages (color)
American Painting From the Armory Show to the Depression
1970
Brown, Milton W
244 pages
The American Scene 1900-1970 An Exhibition of twentieth century painting (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Hope, Henry Radford (Essay)
119 pages
Great American Paintings from the Boston and Metropolitan Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Maytham, Thomas N
160 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
American Art of the 20's and 30's (Three Catalogues Combined) (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Museum of Modern Art Editors
220 pages
A Memorial Exhibition The Nathanial Saltonstall Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Phillips, Michael/Andrew Hyde
60 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Ferdinand Howald Collection (The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts) (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Tucker, Marcia (Editor); Kasha Linville (Essays)
119 pages (color)
Highlights from the Collections Georgia Museum of Art
1968
Georgia Museum of Art
36 pages
An American Collection The Neuberger Collection
1968
Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott
463 pages (color)
American Art Since 1900 A Critical History
1967
Rose, Barbara
320 pages (color)
Cubism, Its Impact in the USA 1910-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1967
U of New Mexico Art Museum
64 pages (color)
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
Roots of Abstract Art in America, 1910-1930 (Smithsonian Institution) (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Breeskin, Adelyn D
84 pages (color)
American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters
1965
Hayes, Bartlett H Jr
141 pages (color)
American Painting 1910 to 1960 50th Anniversary Exhibition College Unions (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Indiana University Museum
80 pages
Pioneers of Modern Art in America Decade of the Armory Show, 1910-1920
1963
Goodrich, Lloyd
94 pages (color)
The New Tradition Modern Americans Before 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Vigtel, Gudmund
68 pages (color)
The Decade of the Armory Show New Directions in American Art 1910-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Whitney Museum
79 pages (color)
American Art of Our Century
1961
Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur
309 pages (color)
The Precisionist View in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1960
Walker Art Center
62 pages (color)
Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956 (Exhibition catalog)
1957
Brooklyn Museum
72 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art
1951
Baur, John I H
170 pages
Painting & Sculpture by 75 Artist Associated with The Art Students League (Exhibition catalog)
1951
Metropolitan Museum of Art
170 pages
100 American Painters of the 20th Century
1950
Metropolitan Museum
132 pages (color)
Milestones of American Painting in Our Century
1949
Wight, Frederick
135 pages (color)
American Landscape Painting An Interpretation
1948
Born, Wolfgang
228 pages
Still-Life Painting in America
1947
Born, Wolfgang
144 pages
Treasury of American Drawings
1947
Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman
176 pages
Pioneers of Modern Art in America (Exhibition catalog)
1946
Whitney Museum
48 pages
New Frontiers in American Painting
1943
Kootz, Samuel M
65 pages (color)
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Museum of Modern Art
320 pages
Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today (Exhibition catalog)
1937
Editor, Cleveland Museum of Art
78 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Modern Works of Art: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition Museum of Modern Art, New York (Exhibition catalog)
1934
Barr, Alfred Jr. (Essay); A Conger Goodyear (Intro)
160 pages
American Painting & Sculpture 1862-1932 (Exhibition catalog)
1932
Museum of Modern Art
135 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
Americans Modern Art
1930
Jewell, Edward Alden
152 pages
Modern American Painters
1930
Kootz, Samuel M
183 pages
Paintings by 19 Living Americans (Exhibition catalog)