Untitled
ca. 1938
Arthur G. Dove
American, 1880-1946
American Art
Beginning in the late 1920s, Arthur Dove created abstract compositions inspired by natural forms and forces that he believed would be understood intuitively by the viewer. By the 1930s he was working out his compositions in this type of small-scale washes and then executed his ink drawing over them to lend a degree of clarity to the abstracted areas of color. Here a white form with a black mark suggests a dwelling near a wooded shoreline.
- Maker/Artist
- Dove, Arthur Garfield
- Classification
- Watercolor
- Formatted Medium
- Watercolor washes and black ink on cream, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper
- Medium
- watercolor, washes, black, ink, cream, moderately, thick, rough-textured, wove, paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm) Frame: 16 3/8 x 21 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (41.6 x 54 x 3.8 cm)
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 1992.112
- Credit Line
- Purchased with funds given in memory of Priscilla Crosby Lewis and Gift of the American Art Council
- Exhibitions
- Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection, Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent and the American Watercolor Movement
- Rights Statement
- © artist or artist's estate
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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