Edwin Walter Dickinson (October 11, 1891 – December 2, 1978) was an American painter and draftsman best known for psychologically charged self-portraits, quickly painted landscapes, which he called premier coups, and large, hauntingly enigmatic paintings involving figures and objects painted from observation, in which he invested his greatest times and concern. His drawings are in addition to widely admired and were the subject of the first compilation published on his work. Less well known are his premier coup portraits and nudes, his medium-sized paintings done definitely from imagination or incorporating elements from one of his drawings or over and done with from observation on summit of several days or weeks, including yet lifes, portraits of others, both commissioned and not, and nudes.
His style of painting, which eschewed details well-disposed of close attention to the interaction between masses of color, was strongly influenced by the example of his studious Charles W. Hawthorne. The weird juxtapositions and technical hints of narrative in his large compositions have been compared to Surrealism, and his premier coups often right of entry abstraction, but Dickinson resisted swine identified taking into account any art movement.
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