The Leninger Place

This painting illustrates Dickinson’s preferred technique of alla prima, or “wet-on-wet,” which involves the rapid completion of a painting so that, in Dickinson’s words, “the enthusiasm and vigor of the first painting […] will be kept on the canvas, no matter how minutely it may be finished later on.” Thus, Dickinson captures the immediacy of a first impression, even if the actual identity of the subject remains unknown.