Arthur Dove: A Retrospective

<p>In collaboration with William C. Agee and Elizabeth Hutton Turner The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the first artist to have produced an abstract painting, has always occupied a central place in writings on early American modernism. This book accompanies the first major exhibition on Dove since 1974. The exhibition, organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and the Phillips Collection, covers the period from 1908, the year after Dove took up painting, through 1946, the year of his death. It is comprised of approximately eighty paintings, collages, pastels, and charcoal drawings. Along with Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin, Dove was touted for more than three decades by photographer and dealer Alfred Stieglitz as an American original, one whose work was prescient in its opposition to the materialism of a newly industrialized America. Essays by Balken, Agee, and Turner discuss Dove's interactions with Stieglitz and others in his circle, including O'Keeffe, Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Paul Strand, and re-examine Dove in the context of early twentieth-century intellectual and cultural history. The book contains color plates of all the works in the exhibition; the essays are profusely illustrated with black-and-white images not included in the exhibition. Apart from an out-of-print catalogue raisonné, this book is the largest and most comprehensive publication to date on Dove's work. Copublished with the Addison Gallery of American Art in association with the Phillips Collection</p>

Arts & Photography

Phillips Collection

Agee, William C.

Balken, Debra Bricker

Addison Gallery of American Art

Turner, Elizabeth Hutton

Phillips Academy

Dove, Arthur Garfield

Individual Artists

Mit Pr

Arthur Dove: Watercolors and Pastels

<p>The first book to focus exclusively on the luminous watercolors and pastels of Arthur Dove (1880-1946), this volume explores the contributions of these mediums to the development of Dove's distinctive images of the American landscape. Dove's landmark pastel series of 1911-12, "The Ten Commandments," represents American modernism's first breakthrough into abstraction. His subsequent pastels of the 1910s and 1920s provided him with the stylistic innovations he later adapted in his oil paintings. Watercolor became the primary medium of Dove's summer months in the early 1930s and remained so throughout his career. Bringing together watercolors and pastels from collections across the country, this book will be of deep interest to both scholars and admirers of twentieth-century American art.</p>

Kirschner, Melanie

George Braziller

History & Criticism

George Braziller, Inc.

Arthur Dove's pursuit of an original language of expression made him a pioneer of American abstraction and a source for later painters. Reflections on Nature: Small Paintings by Arthur Dove, 1942-1943 features twenty-eight mixed media works on paper from the collection of the Wichita Art Museum, to whom the works were given in 1989 by the artist's son. Representing a group of more than three hundred similar sketches executed late in life, these small paintings are meditations on the natural environs of Dove's Long Island home. The freshness and authority in this selection of Dove's late work is evidence of his lifelong interest in the distillation of natural forms as well as his enduring commitment to technical experimentation.

Reflections on Nature: Small Paintings by Arthur Dove, 1942-1943

Eldredge, Charles C.

New Britain Museum of American Art

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Amer Federation of Arts

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