Untitled
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
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.
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) Frame: 16 3/8 x 21 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (41.6 x 54 x 3.8 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)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Untitled
Date
ca. 1938
Medium
Watercolor washes and black ink on cream, moderately thick, rough-textured wove paper
Classification
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)
Signatures
Signed lower edge, center: "Dove"
Credit Line
Purchased with funds given in memory of Priscilla Crosby Lewis and Gift of the American Art Council
Accession Number
1992.112
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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