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Home > Art > Below the Flood Gates – Huntington Harbor

Below the Flood Gates – Huntington Harbor

Artist

Arthur Dove

Date

1930

Medium

Oil on canvas

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 24 1/4 x W- 28 1/8 in. (61.6 x 71.4 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, Promised gift to The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

2007.01.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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The Artist;
Alfred Stieglitz, New York, NY;
[The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY];
[ACA Gallery, New York, NY, March 25, 1969];
Private Collection, New York, 1969;
Private Collection, New York;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY];

New York, NY. An American Place. Arthur G. Dove: 27 New Paintings. March 22-April 22, 1930, cat. no. 23.

New York, NY. The Downtown Gallery. Arthur G. Dove, 1880-1946: Paintings. April 22-May 10, 1952, ill. np., cat. no. 4.

College Park, MD. University of Maryland Art Gallery. Arthur Dove: The Years of Collage. March 13-April 19, 1967, p. 49, cat. no. 4.

New York, NY. ACA Gallery. March 1969.

San Francisco, CA. San Francisco Museum of Art. Arthur Dove (November 21, 1974-January 5, 1975); Buffalo, NY. Albright-Knox Art Gallery (January 27-March 2, 1975); St. Louis, MO. St. Louis Art Museum (April 3-May 25, 1975); Chicago, IL. The Art Institute of Chicago (July 12-August 31, 1975); Des Moines, IA. The Des Moines Art Center. (September 22-November 2, 1975); New York, NY. Whitney Museum of American Art (November 24, 1975-January 18, 1976), ill p. 72.

Tulsa, OK. Philbrook Museum of Art.  From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (February 8-May 3, 2015); Phoenix, AZ. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe, NM. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).

Chadds Ford, PA. Brandywine River Museum of Art. Rural Modern: American Art Beyond the City (October 29, 2016-January 22, 2017); Atlanta, GA. High Museum of Art (February 12-May 7, 2017), p. 66, 189, ill. p. 66, pl. 19.

Jewell, Edward Alden. “Concerning Mr. Dove,” New York Times, March 30, 1930, X12.

Downtown Gallery Records. Gallery Stock: Inventory Cards, Arthur Dove, Titles A-Z and Unknown (1 of 2), circa 1943. Box 64, Reel 5611, Frames 39-40. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Devree, Howard. “Pioneer Modernist: Arthur Dove’s Expressionist Abstraction – Two in Contrast – A Biennial,” New York Times, April 27, 1952, ill.

Sales Slip, ACA Galleries, New York, March 25, 1969. The Downtown Gallery. Sales Records, Artwork: Sales Slips, 1969. Box 74, Reel 5632, Frame 208. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Morgan, Ann Lee. Arthur Dove: Life and Work, with a Catalogue Raisonné. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1984, p. 179, ill. p. 179, cat. no. 30.2.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 13, 86-87, 239, 241, 265, ill. p. 87.

Pochoda, Elizabeth. “Freedom and the abstract truth: Jan and Marica Vilcek’s collection of American modernist art,” The Magazine Antiques (May/June 2013), ill. p. 97.

O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, ill. p. 56.

Abatemarco, Michael. “Assimilation Through Art: The Modernist Collection of Marica and Jan Vilcek,” Pasatiempo, September 25, 2015, ill. p. 38.

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