The Winter Academy. (by the Second Viewer.)
Of the portraits, one alone has the distinction of really profound personal feeling, and that is the work of a hitherto unknown man, a Massachusetts painter—Sidney E. Dickinson. Not even Mr. Weir’s own contribution, honestly sincere as it is, gives one a more poignant thrill as a transcript of human nature. Hats off to Mr. Dickinson—whoever he may be. His tone has a slight reminiscence of some of the most sulphurous canvases of Franz Hals, but for all that his portrait is so rarely simple, so decorative, so characterized as to line, that one feels it might have had the centre of the wall to get its due.
American Art News, vol. 14, no. 13, , p. 1.
Fakirs at the Salmagundi
The Salmagundi Club, 14 W. 12 St., which so often has something of interest to show, has now on a “Retrospective Exhibition” by the Fakirs. Among the 100 “Fakes” are works by […] Sidney Dickinson, […]. A number of the “fakes” are caricatures of the artists own works. […] Two prizes of $25 each were awarded, the honors being equally divided between […] and Sidney Dickinson for his amusing satire “New York vs. Milwaukee.”
American Art News, vol. 14, no. 33, , p. 2.
Spring Exhibition—National Academy of Design
The first Hallgarten prize, as already mentioned, went to Howard E. Smith for his portrait of Bela Pratt; the second to John Follinsbee for a winter landscape; and the third to Sidney Dickinson for a painting entitled “Unrest.”
The American Magazine of Art, vol. 8, no. 7, , p. 273.
“Eclectics” Annual Show
Sidney Dickinson sends a new composition, an exhibition picture which seems destined to make a sensation as it goes the rounds of the large shows. This oblong canvas upon which is represented against a drab background of staircase, heightened with a hanging of crimson, a black haired lady of pallid complexion, whose delicate hands gather tightly about her the folds of a black satin mantle. Mr. Dickinson also contributes his “Young Painter,” a portrait skilfully brushed and high expression of character.
American Art News, vol. 17, no. 9, , p. 2.
Sidney E. Dickinson is engaged in teaching in Minnesota but has found time to paint a large fine new composition which he calls “The Spanish Girl,” on view with the Eclectic group at the Babcock Gallery.
American Art News, vol. 17, no. 10, , p. 4.
Sidney Dickinson 