Sidney Edward Dickinson

American, 1890-1980

BiographySidney (sometimes Sydney) Edward Dickinson, 1890 – 1980, was an American portrait and figure painter.

Dickinson was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, and was the son of a Congregationalist minister. Dickinson studied with George Bridgman and William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League of New York from 1910 to 1911, and from 1910 to 1912 he was a pupil of Douglas Volk at the school of the National Academy of Design. He spent time traveling around the country doing manual labor, working in lumber camps and finding employment as a surveyor's roadman and farmhand. Dickinson was active as an instructor for many years, teaching at the Art Students League.

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