Untitled
Arthur G. Dove
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.
MEDIUM
Watercolor washes and black ink on cream, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper
DATES
ca. 1938
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) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower edge, center: "Dove"
COLLECTIONS
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
MUSEUM LOCATION
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CAPTION
Arthur G. Dove (American, 1880–1946). Untitled, ca. 1938. Watercolor washes and black ink on cream, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper, Sheet: 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given in memory of Priscilla Crosby Lewis and Gift of the American Art Council, 1992.112. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1992.112_SL1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 1992.112_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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