Eleanor Creekmore Dickinson (American/Tennessee, 1931-2017), "Reclining Female Nude", 1967, ink on paper, signed and dated lower left, artist label with signature and date, artist card and 2 artist information labels on backing, sight 39 1/2 in. x 26 1/4 in., framed, overall 49 in. x 35 1/2 in. x 1 3/4 in. Note: Eleanor Creekmore Dickinson was born in 1931 in Knoxville, Tennessee. She moved to the Bay Area for her graduate studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and The California College of the Arts and immersed herself in the thriving radical art and political scene. She marched in protests and socialized in the same creative circles as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg. Dickinson changed her appearance and accentuated her hair with bold, colorful dyes which she washed out every year when she returned to the South to document the practices of the Pentecostal revivalists. Her depictions of the worshippers were executed through a respectful lens with the goal of showing the sincerity of the congregation and their beliefs. She executed a large and diverse body of work including numerous figure studies utilizing a wide range of media over the span of her lifetime, and her works have been exhibited at institutions such as the Smithsonian, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress? Archive of Folk Culture. Ref.: Marble, Steve. ?Eleanor Creekmore Dickinson, Beat-era artist who explored Pentecostal revivals, dies at 86.? Los Angeles Times. Mar. 16, 2017. www.latimes.com. Accessed May 1, 2024.

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