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The following essay is from the 1982 publication Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Early Modern.
Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe were the two most important American artists working between the wars to develop a consistently abstract style. Dove's contribution to the development of modernism in this country was crucial. He was born in Canandaigua, New York, and grew up in nearby Geneva, where excursions into the countryside shaped a lifelong love of nature. After two years at Hobart College, he transferred to Cornell to study with the illustrator, Charles Furlong, and then worked in New York from 1904 as a free-lance illustrator, developing at the same time an interest in painting. In France from 1907 to 1909, he met Alfred Henry Maurer and Arthur Beecher Carles and came under the influence of Henri Matisse and Paul Cezanne. Dove's earliest abstractions, among the first anywhere and based clearly on responses to nature, date from 1910. Living in Westport, Connecticut, he attempted to support his family through farming and illustration work but also stayed in close touch with the Stieglitz circle in New York, where his artistic allegiances and support lay. Stieglitz exhibited Dove's work at "291" and gave him his first one-man exhibition in 1912. In 1920 Dove gave up farming and moved into a large yawl docked in Long Island Sound and in 1929 into the yacht club in Halesite, Long Island. About 1924 he began making assemblages. In 1930 he started receiving monthly stipends from Duncan Phillips in exchange for first choice of paintings from Dove's exhibitions, and special recognitions came in a retrospective at The Phillips Memorial Gallery in 1937. Otherwise, Dove's pioneering abstractions drew only a moderate following. In 1933 he moved back to Geneva and in 1938 to Centerport, Long Island. Late in life he was weakened by pneumonia, then heart and kidney problems, and died in Huntington, New York in 1946.
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Steven A. Nash, Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Early Modern, September 26- November 14, 1982, (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts), 143.
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- YouTube~Watch this lecture from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston titled "Painting from the Past: Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Charles Sheeler."
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General Description
The following essay is from the 1982 publication Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Early Modern.
Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe were the two most important American artists working between the wars to develop a consistently abstract style. Dove's contribution to the development of modernism in this country was crucial. He was born in Canandaigua, New York, and grew up in nearby Geneva, where excursions into the countryside shaped a lifelong love of nature. After two years at Hobart College, he transferred to Cornell to study with the illustrator, Charles Furlong, and then worked in New York from 1904 as a free-lance illustrator, developing at the same time an interest in painting. In France from 1907 to 1909, he met Alfred Henry Maurer and Arthur Beecher Carles and came under the influence of Henri Matisse and Paul Cezanne. Dove's earliest abstractions, among the first anywhere and based clearly on responses to nature, date from 1910. Living in Westport, Connecticut, he attempted to support his family through farming and illustration work but also stayed in close touch with the Stieglitz circle in New York, where his artistic allegiances and support lay. Stieglitz exhibited Dove's work at "291" and gave him his first one-man exhibition in 1912. In 1920 Dove gave up farming and moved into a large yawl docked in Long Island Sound and in 1929 into the yacht club in Halesite, Long Island. About 1924 he began making assemblages. In 1930 he started receiving monthly stipends from Duncan Phillips in exchange for first choice of paintings from Dove's exhibitions, and special recognitions came in a retrospective at The Phillips Memorial Gallery in 1937. Otherwise, Dove's pioneering abstractions drew only a moderate following. In 1933 he moved back to Geneva and in 1938 to Centerport, Long Island. Late in life he was weakened by pneumonia, then heart and kidney problems, and died in Huntington, New York in 1946.
Adapted from
Steven A. Nash, Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Early Modern, September 26- November 14, 1982, (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts), 143.
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- YouTube~Watch this lecture from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston titled "Painting from the Past: Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Charles Sheeler."
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