This work surveys Edwin Dickinson's life and career, both of which revolved around Cape Cod, Buffalo, and New York's Finger Lakes region. It covers the artist's influential career as a teacher, and analyzes Dickinson's self-portraits and major symbolic paintings.

The biographical material formerly included in the directory is issued separately as Who's who in American art, 1936/37-

Includes report of the director of fine arts, of the director of the Museum, and of the director of the Technical schools.

"Should be the classic, central, definitive work on the emergence of Bay Area Figurative painting."--Paul Mills, author of The New Figurative Painting of David Park