Artist: Arthur Dove (1880 - 1946)
Nationality: American
Movement: Abstract Art
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Arthur Dove began his career as a commercial artist, a job which often caused him financial suffering. From 1907 to 1909, he traveled in Europe where he was influenced by Fauvism among other new movements. His first abstract work appeared in 1910, Abstraction No 1 – Abstraction No 6, marking the creation of the first American abstract paintings. Two years later, he held his first solo exhibition at Stieglitz’s 291 Gallery. His early paintings incorporated organic shapes but he later took interest in geometrical patterns.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Arthur Dove - Cow #1 1935 tempera on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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Arthur Dove - Sun 1943 wax emulsion on canv Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Arthur G. Dove - Haystack 1931 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Arthur Dove - Moon 1935 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Arthur Dove - Sun 1943 wax emulsion on canv Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Arthur Dove - Thunderstorm 1921 oil and metallic pai Columbus Museum of Art American
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Arthur Dove - Across the Road 1941 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center American
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Arthur Dove - Silver Sun 1929 oil and metallic pai The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Arthur Dove - Sunrise 1924 oil on plywood Milwaukee Art Museum American
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Arthur Dove - Sun 1943 watercolor and pen a Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Arthur Dove - The Intellectual 1925 wooden box with magn The Museum of Modern Art American
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Peter Paul Rubens - Teresa of Avila's Vision of the Dove c. 1614-1615 oil on panel The Fitzwilliam Museum Flemish
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth, St. John, and a Dove c. 1609 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art Flemish
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Arthur Dove - Untitled from Sketchbook "E" 1940-1946 gouache Arkansas Arts Center American
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Arthur G. Dove - Centerport Series #16 1941 watercolor and gouac Hirshhorn Museum American
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Arthur G. Dove - Alfie's Delight 1929 oil on canvas The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art American
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Arthur Dove - Pine Tree 1931 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Arthur Dove - Corn Crib 1935 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center American
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Arthur G. Dove - Huntington Harbor 1924 oil, oil on paper, p Hirshhorn Museum American
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Arthur Dove - Snow and Water 1928 oil on aluminum Currier Museum of Art American
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Arthur Dove - Moth Dance 1929 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Arthur G. Dove - City Moon 1938 oil and wax emulsion Hirshhorn Museum American
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Arthur Dove - Indian Summer 1941 oil on canvas Heckscher Museum of Art
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Frederic Leighton - David "Oh, that I had wings like a Dove! For then would I fly away, and be at rest." Psalm 55:6 1865 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art British
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Arthur B. Dove - Cars in a Sleet Storm 1938 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Arthur Dove - Untitled (Centerport) 1941 watercolor, gouache, Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Arthur Dove - Black and White 1940 gouache on paper Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Arthur Dove - Untitled (Landscape) c. 1938 ink and watercolor o Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Stanley Lea A Dove Changing the Earth Into a Rainbow lithograph with embossment 1973
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Arthur Garfield Dove - Space Divided by Line Motive (U.S.A.) 1943 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Arthur G. Dove - Study in Still Life (Chinese Bowl) 1912-1916 oil on paperboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Earring with a dove standing on an altar Greek Hellenistic Period 150–100 B.C. Gold, garnet,
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Rene Lalique Dove figurine hand etched glass 19th - 20th century
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Earring with a dove standing on an altar Greek Hellenistic Period 150–100 B.C. Gold, garnet,
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Abram Krol Dove Engraving 20th century
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Dove on Plum Tree Branch, Koei (Japan) , 20th century, Color woodblock print
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The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth, Saint John, and a Dove Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish,
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Bernard Picart Dove flying with an olive branch 17th - 18th century
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The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth, St. John, and a Dove, Peter Paul Rubens (Flanders, 1577 - 1640) , circa 1609, Oil on panel
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Blind Minotaur Led through the Night by Girl with Fluttering Dove, Pablo Picasso (Spain, Malaga, 1881 - 1973) , 1934, Burnished aquatint
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The Murderer with the Dove, Edmund (Eddy) Richard Max Smith (Germany, Berlin, 1896 - 1957) , 1924, Engraving on wove paper
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Murderer with Dove, Edmund (Eddy) Richard Max Smith (Germany, Berlin, 1896 - 1957) , 1923, Graphite on heavy wove paper
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Dove of the Holy Spirit from the Annunciation, Andrea della Robbia (Italy, Florence, 1435 - 1525) , circa 1465, Lead-glazed terracotta
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John Gould Stock Dove - Columba oenas lithograph with hand coloring 19th century
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Anibal Gil La paloma (The Dove), third plate in the portfolio, 21 Estampadores de Colombia, Mexico y Venezuela (21 Printmakers of Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela) Etching with roulette 1972
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Magda Santonastasio The ring-dove fliesä, plate 2 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artist (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Magda Santonastasio The ring-dove steersä, plate 3 in the book, Meinschatz with poems by the artistrtist, author (San Diego: Tuhana Press, 1987) color etching 1987
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Hans Leonhard Sch‰ufelein Cain killing Abel (front); and The dove returning to the ark with olive branch (back) Woodcut 15th - 16th century
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Randolph Caldecott Illustration on page [78], second illustration for The Hawk Chasing the Dove in the book Some of Aesop*s Fables with Modern Instances...new translations by Alfred Caldecott (London: Macmillan, 1883) wood engraving 1883
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Randolph Caldecott Illustration on page 79, third illustration for The Hawk Chasing the Dove in the book Some of Aesop*s Fables with Modern Instances...new translations by Alfred Caldecott (London: Macmillan, 1883) wood engraving 1883
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Randolph Caldecott Illustration on page [77], first illustration for The Hawk Chasing the Dove in the book Some of Aesop*s Fables with Modern Instances...new translations by Alfred Caldecott (London: Macmillan, 1883) wood engraving 1883
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Eric Gill Holy Ghost as Dove (printed in red), from 72 unsigned prints on Japanese paper from a set of 80, issued as extra set for 80 copies of the book (numbered 1-80 and signed): pl.55: Daily Herald Order of Industrial Heroism: D.189: St. Christopher (w
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Randolph Caldecott Illustration on page [80], fourth illustration for The Hawk Chasing the Dove in the book Some of Aesop*s Fables with Modern Instances...new translations by Alfred Caldecott (London: Macmillan, 1883) wood engraving 1883
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Crispijn I de Passe The Virgin Mary, with the Holy Spirit appearing in the form of a dove Engraving 16th - 17th century
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Argonaut Master, Italian (Florentine), 15th century The Adoration of the Christ Child with the Dove
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Arthur Wesley Dow Modern Art Color lithograph poster 1895
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Frank Arthur Nankivell Echo color lithograph 1895
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M.M. Manchester - Judge and Mrs. Arthur Yates c. 1840 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Rauschenberg, Port Arthur, Texas, Public Library, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1984, Offset lithograph
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Portrait de Mme Arthur Foucques Duparc (3e quart 19e siècle) by REGNAULT Henri

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (26)
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Pump House Gallery: Katy Dove: New Commisioned Work
Dove's mesmerising kaleidoscopic animations investigate the complex relationship between perception, colour and sound. Much of her work takes the form of a visual and audio representation of an idea, emotion or perception using animation to red...
Addison Gallery of American Art: To Conserve a Legacy American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Additional support has been generously provided by The Henry Luce Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Greentree Foundation, the Joseph Harrison Jackson Fo...
Arts Center of the Capital Region: Factory Direct .1
Participating artists include: Elizabeth Dove, Jan Galligan, Andrew Boardman, Susie and Betsy Brandt, Carl Scholz, Bill Schuck, Kathleen Brandt, Brian St.Cyr, Jeff Hatfield, Mark Dion, Lisa Austin, Richard Criddle, Roger Bisbing, Morgan Puett, and...
Mark Fabbro: Seeking US Venue: Monumental War and Art Sculpture
Mark is seeking an opportunity to exhibit the monumental work at art galleries in Washington DC, New York City and other United States locations. Through the global media people are constantly presented with graphic images of people, and ...
Phillips Collection: Renoir to Rothko: The Eye of Duncan Phillips
Phillips’ early ambition was to be a critic. At the end, he had become one of the primary interpreters of modernism in the United States, as well as the collector of nearly 2,000 ...
Universal Concepts Unlimited: Joseph Nechvatal - vOluptuary : An Algorithic Hermaphornology
vOluptuary: an algorithic hermaphornology makes use of what Gilles Deleuze has called Œpornology‚ (2) for here representations of the intimate body associated with sexuality (of both sexes) undergo an intricate re-combination and subsequent intermixt...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection
The collection is marked by a passion for color, strong compositional designs, and occasionally eccentric images, with an emphasis upon several favorite artists, among them Joseph Stella, Oscar Bluemner, Charles Demuth, and Arthur Dove, each of w...
Brett Whiteley Studio: Animals and Birds: The Artist's Favorite Theme
Metaphorically an escape into what Whiteley saw as the freedom of the natural world, these works provoked in him both curiosity and a tremendous sense of release. As a child, Whiteley always loved visiting Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney and from a...
Phillips Collection: William Scharf: Paintings, 1984-2000
Scharf's work, which brings to mind the paintings of Arshile Gorky and Mark Rothko, for whom he served as a studio assistant, has been considered second generation abstract expressionist. His sources and references, howeve...
Chambers Fine Art: Viewpoints: Chinese Photography Today
Only in the work of Weng Fen, represented in the exhibition by two works of 2002, Bird's Eye View: Shenzhen and Bird's Eye View: Haikou , is there a glimpse of the overwhelming scale of urban developments in China today. The focus of his photograp...
Gamblin Artists Colors Co.: NEW ENVIRONMENTAL COLOR -- TORRIT GREY 2000
Dedicated to the environment of the earth and the artists studio, Robert Gamblin, paintmaker and founder of Gamblin Artists Colors Co., has been an outspoken advocate of both environmental and studio safety issues for years. Pigment dust sh...
KwaZulu Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA): Being Here: A Group Exhibition Celebrating Place and Belonging
These are questions that have been recurring themes in contemporary work of the past ten years. Artists have reflected on and imaged Durban for many years though, particularly in early colonial times. But what have replaced those colonial images o...
Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) at The Ohio State University: Ohio State University Receives $6 Million Software Grant from Alias|Wavefront
Ohio State, the academic leader in computer animation and design programs, will use the software for inter-disciplinary teaching and research at ACCAD, according to Judith Smith Koroscik, dean of Ohio States College of the Arts. Ohio State has bu...
Arlington Museum of Art: New American Talent 16: Organized by the Texas Fine Arts Association (TFAA)
Umland states that far from a comprehensive picture of a particular moment in 21st century art…what is captured here are a series of distinctive instances of artistic expression in the making, as represented by 32 different artists working in the...
Gamblin Artists Colors Co.: New Environmental Color -- TORRIT GREY 2001
Every year, Gamblin formulates Torrit Grey - both to recycle pigment and to focus artists on the importance of recycling - and distributes it in April in honor of Earth Day (April 22).  Dedicated to the environment of the earth, as well as the ...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950
The period from 1875 to 1950 saw the status of the watercolor shift dramatically. Works on paper until that time usually served only as studies or preparatory works for finished oil paintings, but beginning in the late 19th century, drawings and...
Engel Gallery: 2000 - A Glance Towards the Next Millennium
The works tell us not only of how each artist views the cultural, social and political aspects, but of their specific point of view - whether optimistic or pessimistic - as to what the next century or millennium holds in sto...
Corning Museum of Glass: New Glass Sculpture Gallery Presents Exhibition of Late 20th Century Works
The exhibition, which will be on view through the year 2001, features about 75 works by 65 artists. While many artists continue to blow glass, others are casting, kiln-forming, flameworking, and combining glass into mixed-media assemblages, Ms. ...
Frick Collection: Master Drawings from the Smith College Museum of Art
Among the other artists represented in the exhibition are Northern European masters Matthias Grünewald, Jan van Goyen, Adoph von Menzel, Piet Mondrian, and Paul Klee. Italian artists include Fra Bartolommeo, Rosso Fiorentino, Federico Barocci, Gi...
Forde espace d'art contemporain: Someone Must Have Been Telling Lies: David Humphrey, Christian Jankowski, David Blandy, Jordan Baseman, David Burrows
David Burrows makes eye-popping, foamtastic narrative scenes synthesising plastic, rubber and everyday objects to create the aftermath of an event - suggesting excess, disaster, accident or violence. Horrific, hilarious and cartoonishly access...
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama
Curated by Randy Rosenberg, formerly the curator for the art collections of The World Bank and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the roster of artists includes: Marina Abramovic, Seyed Alavi, Jane Alexander, El Anatsui, Laurie Anders...
Bayly Art Museum: Hindsight/Fore-site: Art for the New Millennium
The special exhibition Hindsight/Fore-site: Art for the New Millennium opens to the public on Saturday, June 17. Curated by Dr. Lyn Bolen Rushton for the Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia, the exhibition features site-specific piec...
Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...
San Diego Museum of Art: Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960
With more than 265 items, the exhibition comprises every category of object imaginable including paintings, sculpture, architectural photography, fashion, textiles, ceramics, jewelry, furniture, glass, toys, and graphic design. Among the highlight...
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios: The Square Root fo Drawing
Traditionally, drawing was regarded as an integral part of training for any painter or sculptor. Its close association with preparation however, meant that for a long time drawing was regarded as secondary to the ‘established’ arts of painting and...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Marsden Hartley: First Retrospective in over 20 Years
Widely acknowledged as the greatest of the early American modernists, Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) belonged to a circle of artists promoted by photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz that included Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, Arthur Dove, ...

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