# The Hills, in Preston Dickinson

Preston Dickinson painted this in about 1919, aged 28. It is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

From the museum's label:

> Preston Dickinson painted The Hills a few years after he returned to New York from France. He admired the work of the French modernist painters, especially Paul Cézanne, who transformed his subjects into simple shapes and planes of color.

_Text from the Smithsonian American Art Museum._

[Read the full label](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-hills-si-saam-1965-11-1#about-work)

## The work

- Date: ca. 1919
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 24 x 27 in. (61.0 x 68.5 cm.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1965.11.1
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Preston Dickinson](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/preston-dickinson), American, 1891–1930

2 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Preston Dickinson's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-preston-dickinson?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Early modernism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/early-modernism?hang=749) (68 works)
- [20th-century United States](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/20-united-states?hang=749) (124 works)

## Get it

- [Print this work](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-hills-si-saam-1965-11-1#print)
- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/1922.jpg?dl=1
- [The work's page](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-hills-si-saam-1965-11-1)