This article will be permanently flagged as inappropriate and made unaccessible to everyone. Are you certain this article is inappropriate? Excessive Violence Sexual Content Political / Social
Email Address:
Article Id: WHEBN0002055899 Reproduction Date:
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] Arthur 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 did a series of experimental collage works 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]
Dove was born to a wealthy family in [6][7] Arthur Dove grew up loving the outdoors on a farm; however, his father was a very successful businessman who owned a brickyard (along with city real estate) and expected his son to become wealthy.[8] Dove's childhood interests included playing the piano, painting lessons, and being a pitcher on a high school baseball team.[8] As a child, he was befriended by a neighbor, Newton Weatherby, a naturalist who helped form Dove's appreciation of nature. Weatherby was also an amateur painter who gave Dove pieces of leftover canvas to work with.
Dove attended Hobart College and Cornell University, and graduated from Cornell in 1903.[1] Dove was chosen to illustrate the Cornell University yearbook. Dove's illustrations proved popular because they brought life to the characters and situations they depicted.[8] After graduation, he became a well known commercial illustrator in New York City, working for Harper's Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post.[1] Dove's parents were upset at his choice to become an artist, instead of a more profitable profession that his Ivy League degree would have enabled, and they would prove unsympathetic to the difficulties that came with a career in art.[9]
In 1907, Dove and his first wife, Florence, traveled to France and moved to Paris, then the world's art capital.[9] They made short trips to both Italy and Spain.[6] While there, Dove joined a group of experimental artists from the United States, which included [6] His son, William C. Dove, was born on July 4, 1909.[7]
When Dove returned to America in 1909 he met [6] They found their common ground in the idea that art forms should embody modern spiritual values not materialism and tradition.[9] With Stieglitz's support, Dove produced what are known as the first purely abstract paintings to come out of America. Dove’s works were based on natural forms and he referred to his type of abstraction as “extraction” where, in essence, he extracted the essential forms of a scene from nature.
Dove exhibited his works at Stieglitz’s [6] Dove used a wide range of media over the course of his career, sometimes in unconventional combinations. During the 1920s Dove made many works on paper such as the pastel on paper, Nature Symbolized (or Reefs) from 1924. As stated above Dove did experimental collage works in the 1920s in works like The Critic, 1925, and The Intellectual 1925;[11][12] and he experimented with techniques, combining paints like oil and/or tempera over a wax emulsion. Tanks, 1938 is an example of oil over a wax emulsion; commenting about Tanks, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts says: Set off by a halo of pale gray, the quivering structures almost seem to dematerialize and merge into the surrounding scenery, yet at the same time, they retain their hulking forms. [5]
In spite of support from various members of the art community, it was often necessary for Dove to earn money through farming, fishing and commercial illustration. Dove’s most consistent supporter was [6] Phillips also purchased “Huntington Harbor 1.”[13] Dove produced about twenty-five assemblages between 1924 and 1930.[7]
He spent a seven-year period on a houseboat called Mona with Helen Torr, known as "Reds" for the fiery color of her hair. Torr was also a painter. Although the psychological consequences benefited Dove’s art, his life with Torr was difficult. Florence Dove never cared about Dove's passion for art, and was more socially inclined. After 25 years of marriage, Dove left Florence.[6] Florence would not grant him a divorce and flatly refused to let him see his son.[6] When he departed, he left behind everything except his copies of O'Keeffe, in terms of having an "unbridled love of pure, hot color."[14]
In July 1924 when Arthur Dove and Helen Torr sailed into Huntington Harbor aboard their 42-foot yawl, Mona, they could not have anticipated the extent to which Long Island’s North Shore would inspire some of their greatest paintings. They lived in Halesite until the Great Depression when both Dove and Torr moved back to the Dove's estate located in Geneva. Longing to be back on Long Island, in 1938 they moved back into their first home, a former post office and general store on Center Shore Road in Centerport, New York. They purchased the house for $980.00. Their tiny, one-room cottage stood on the edge of the Titus Mill Pond. Almost immediately, Dove was found to have pneumonia; he eventually suffered from a heart attack and was diagnosed with a debilitating kidney disorder. In terrible health for the remainder of his days, he lived quietly, finally about to devote himself entirely to painting, and focusing on the inspiration of his surroundings and his home. Some of the most powerful paintings of his career, including Indian Summer, were painted in Centerport. Red remained in the house on the millpond but never painted again but after her death in 1967, both Red and Dove had their work hung together in The Museum of Modern Art in 1979.[9][16]
The Arthur Dove-Helen Torr Cottage was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[15]
Dove suffered from heart disease and [6] Arthur Dove died on November 23, 1946 following a second heart attack and kidney failure. In October, just before his death, Dove wrote to Phillips for the last time:
You have no idea what sending on those checks to me at this time. After fighting for an idea all your life I realize that your backing has saved it for me and meant to thank you with all my heart and soul for what you have done. It has been marvelous. So many letters have been written and not mailed and owing to having been in bed a great deal of time this summer, the paintings were about all I could muster up enough energy to do what I considered the best of my ability. Just before Stieglitz’s death I took some paintings to him that I considered as having something new in the. He immediately walked right up to them and spoke of the new ideas. His intuition in that way was remarkable and I am so glad to have been allowed to live during his and your lifetimes. It has been a great privilege for which I am truly thankful.
Arthur Dove’s granddaughter is the interactive artist Toni Dove.
The Estate of Arthur Dove is represented by the Terry Dintenfass Gallery.[17]
Based on Leaf Forms and Spaces, 1911–12, pastel on unidentified support (now lost)
Sails, 1911–12
Dark Abstraction, 1917
Thunderstorm, 1918
Clouds and Water, 1930, oil on canvas, 75.2 x 100.6 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Moon, 1935, oil on canvas, 88.9 x 63.5 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
unbridled love of pure, hot color,
Jstor, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, Historic preservation, Pdf
Pablo Picasso, Pop Art, Paper, Music, China
Suffolk County, New York, Nassau County, New York, Brooklyn, Queens, Connecticut
New York City, United States, American Civil War, Hawaii, Western United States
Fauvism, De Stijl, Wassily Kandinsky, Geometric abstraction, Piet Mondrian
Jazz, Blues, Modernism, Great Depression, Dada
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, J. M. W. Turner, Jan van Eyck
New York, Modernism, Bremen, Pablo Picasso, SS Kaiser Wilhelm II
Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, Penn State Nittany Lions, University Park, Pennsylvania, Peru
Art, England, Loyola University Chicago, Renaissance, Caravaggio