EDWIN DICKINSON Graphite Portrait Sally Weld 1941, verso reads EDWIN DICKINSON SALLY WELD 1941, verso states art provenance as belonging to the collection of Robert C. Graham, of James Graham and Sons. SUBJECT A portrait of a young girl with her hair tied up with ribbons, measures 19 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches, acrylic frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed, not examined out of frame. 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 time and concern. His drawings are also widely admired and were the subject of the first book published on his work.[1] Less well known are his premier coup portraits and nudes, his medium-sized paintings done entirely from imagination or incorporating elements from one of his drawings or done