In 1913 Dickinson settled in the artist's colony of Provincetown, Mass., as a year-round resident. He spent many years there before moving to New York in 1944. The landscape that he has recorded in this drawing is the Provincetown Beach at Long Point with its notable lighthouse. The sandy beach is only a delicate, silvery suggestion, created through the technique of stumping (rubbing the surface of the drawing for tonal effects). Sky and white sand meld together into a hazy, atmospheric scene.