Arthur Dove

Arthur Garfield Dove
Born(1880-08-02)August 2, 1880
Canandaigua, New York, US
DiedNovember 23, 1946(1946-11-23) (aged 66)
Huntington, New York, US
Known forModernism, abstract art
RelativesToni Dove (granddaughter)

Arthur Garfield Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946) was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter.[1] Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinations, to produce his abstractions and his abstract landscapes. Me and the Moon[2] from 1937 is a good example of an Arthur Dove abstract landscape and has been referred to as one of the culminating works of his career.[3] Dove made a series of experimental collages in the 1920s.[4] He also experimented with techniques, combining paints like hand mixed oil or tempera over a wax emulsion as exemplified in Dove's 1938 painting Tanks, in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.[5]

  1. ^ Roberts, Norma J., ed. (1988), The American Collections, Columbus Museum of Art, p. 72, ISBN 0-8109-1811-0.
  2. ^ Me and the Moon, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
  3. ^ Archives of American Art
  4. ^ Phillips Collection
  5. ^ Boston Museum of Fine Arts