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The Cello Player is a painting by the American artist Edwin Dickinson (1891–1978). Painted in oils on a canvas measuring 60 x 48 1/2 inches, it was begun in 1924 and finished in 1926. In 1988 it was purchased by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
The Cello Player. (128) 1924–26. Provincetown, MA. Oil on canvas. 60 x 48 1/2 in. (152.4 x 123.2 cm) Signed, dated toward lower right on back of chair: "E W Dickinson / 1924-6". M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Photo: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
These traumatic events may have shaped Dickinson’s style, which blends the real and the surreal, the prosaic and the poetic. "The ’Cello Player" depicts a bird’s-eye view of an older man cradling a violoncello and surrounded by an impossible array of objects.
He interprets the old man in An Anniversary, Two Figures II, The Cello Player, and The Fossil Hunters, and the androgynous woman in Woodland Scene as his aged father, associated in four of the paintings with a young woman and with the cello substituting for a woman in the fifth.
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘The Cello Player’ was created in 1926 by Edwin Dickinson in Expressionism style.
Edwin W. Dickinson American, 1891 - 1978 The Cello Player, 1924 - 1926 oil on canvas 60" x 48 1/4" DeYoung Museum photo by Gregg Chadwick "Dickinson is not a name that carries instant recognition outside the circles of art historians and artists.
31 de ago. de 2007 · The Cello Player (1924-26) is Dickinson's breakthrough and his first masterpiece. The mannerisms are gone. We look down over an old man playing a cello surrounded by a multitude of symbolically specific objects that sometimes shift position and re-appear elsewhere in the indigo gray space.
