Preston Dickinson

Industry
c. 1923

A painting depicting an urban landscape with a variety of buildings in different shapes and colors. The foreground shows rooftops with a focus on geometric forms and lines, while the background features taller structures with visible windows and a smokestack. The color palette is muted with shades of brown, blue, and grey, and the painting has a signature in the bottom right corner.

A painting depicting an urban landscape with a variety of buildings in different shapes and colors. The foreground shows rooftops with a focus on geometric forms and lines, while the background features taller structures with visible windows and a smokestack. The color palette is muted with shades of brown, blue, and grey, and the painting has a signature in the bottom right corner.

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Date
c. 1923

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 30 × 24in. (76.2 × 61 cm)

Accession number
31.173

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/2941

Exhibitions

Breaking Ground: The Whitney’s Founding Collection

Apr 28–Sept 18, 2011

Preston Dickinson
9 works in the collection

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