Sidney Dickinson

Sidney (sometimes Sydney) Edward Dickinson (November 28, 1890 – April, 1980) was an American painter.

Dickinson was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, and was the son of a Congregationalist minister, Charles H. Dickinson. His parents moved frequently; from 1894 to 1901 the intimates lived in Canandaigua, New York, and they spent time in Fargo, North Dakota and Calhoun, Alabama, where they assisted his aunt, Charlotte Thorn, in the dealing out of the Calhoun Colored School. Dickinson studied later than 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 bookish of the National Academy of Design. He spent mature traveling almost the country put on an act manual labor, working in lumber camps and finding employment as a surveyor's roadman and farmhand.

Dickinson first exhibited considering the National Academy in 1915, hanging a self-portrait at that year's winter show. He normal a Julius Hallgarten Prize upon the occasion of his third exploit with the organization, in 1917, and continued to exhibit there for nearly fifty years. He earned marginal Hallgarten Prize in 1924; the Isaac N. Maynard Prize in 1933 and 1938; the Benjamin Altman Prize in 1936; and the Andrew Carnegie Prize in 1942. He served upon the Academy Council from 1930 until 1933. He was elected a supporter of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1931.

Dickinson was supple as an moot for many years, teaching at the Art Students League in 1919–1920 and heading a vivaciousness class at the National Academy from 1928 to 1931 and once more from 1939 to 1943. In the summers of 1943 and 1944 he returned to the League to teach, and became a regular skill member there in 1949, retiring in 1973. Pupils included Albert Wasserman, James Rosenquist, Richard Pionk, and Robert Neffson. Dickinson kept a studio in Carnegie Hall until retiring to Windsor, Vermont, where he would die, in the superior 1970s.

Dickinson was a prolific portraitist; among the artists whose portraits he showed at the Academy are Paul Arndt, Robert Aitken, Louis Bosa, Eugene Higgins, Hobart Nichols, Raphael Soyer, and his second cousin Edwin Dickinson. A self-portrait is share of the Academy's unshakable collection, as are portraits of Mary Gray, George Wharton Edwards, Harry Wilson Watrous, Georg J. Lober, Frederick K. Detwiller, Donald De Lue, Ernest Nathaniel Townsend, John Carroll, Theodore E. Blake, Otto R. Eggers, Robert S. Hutchins, Bryant Baker, and Edgar I. Williams. Other portraits include a notable set depicting members of the Rockefeller family, the ascribed mayoral portrait of Fiorello LaGuardia, and a portrait of Governor Thomas E. Kilby of Alabama. Another portrait of Baker, donated by the subject, is owned by the National Portrait Gallery, while a portrait of photographer Paul Juley is portion of the accretion of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Other portraits are owned by the Figge Art Museum, Harvard University, Princeton University, the United States Department of State, and the University of Iowa. Dickinson moreover painted many symbolic works throughout his career; a number of these were born of his experiences in Alabama, and are owned by the Greenville County Museum of Art in South Carolina. He was noted for operational in wet-on-wet style, and composed many of his works directly in the studio, often completing a portrait during a single three- or four-hour sitting.

His children were wildlife biologist Nate Dickinson and mechanical engineer Thorn Watson Dickinson. Dickinson's grandson Charles Dickinson is as a consequence a painter.