Still Life
The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973
Catalogue
- Year
- 1930
- Dimensions
- 20 13/16 × 26 3/8 in. (52.8 × 67 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Preston Dickinson
Artist
Painting
Preston Dickinson was an American painter and printmaker working in the early modernist idiom, known for precisionist still lifes and industrial landscapes executed in oil and watercolor. Active in New York during the 1920s, he developed a distinctive approach to geometric abstraction rooted in observed reality, particularly the architecture of factories, bridges, and domestic interiors. His work bridges American Precisionism and European modernism, employing flattened planes and sharp-edged forms to distill complex spatial relationships into a formal language of clarity and restraint.
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Record
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- Preston Dickinson
- Year
- 1930
- Dimensions
- 20 13/16 × 26 3/8 in. (52.8 × 67 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1930-145029
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
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- Status
- verified