Edith Dimock
1876-1955

Born in 1876 in West Hartford, Connecticut, Edith Dimock was the daughter of a wealthy New England textile manufacturer.  She began her artistic career at the New York Art Students League where she studied for four years before working with William Merritt Chase at his New York School of Art.  Most likely introduced by a mutual friend in the Robert Henri circle, she married fellow artist William Glackens in 1904.  Dimock’s work, similar to the artistic and social concerns of The Eight, expresses spontaneity and an interest in the gritty realism of life.

Dimock was one of a group of women to exhibit at the 1913 Armory show where she lent a group of eight watercolors. Six of those watercolors are owned and offered by Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC, while the other two are in the permanent collection of The Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia).

All eight of Dimock’s watercolors were purchased from the Armory Show; six were sold as a group for $280 to George E. Marcus, and Sweatshop Girls in the Country and Mother and Daughter were sold to John Quinn for $35 each. All 8 are framed identically with frames believed to be original to the works.