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Home > Art > Colored Drawing, Canvas

Colored Drawing, Canvas

Artist

Arthur Dove

Date

1929

Medium

Oil on canvas

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 17 1/2 x W- 21 3/4 in. (44.5 x 55.2 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

United States

Collecting Area

American Modernism

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

VF2016.03.17

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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The Artist;
Alfred Stieglitz, New York, NY;
[The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY];
[Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, NY];
Dr. George Newton, Kailua, HI;
Private Collection, Texas;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY];
Jan T. and Marica Vilcek Collection, New York, NY, 2008-2016;

New York, NY. An American Place. Arthur G. Dove: 27 New Paintings. March 22-April 22, 1930, cat. no. 15.

New York, NY. The Downtown Gallery. Arthur G. Dove. April 22-May 10, 1952, cat. no. 1.

New York, NY. The Downtown Gallery. Special Exhibition of Paintings by Dove. February 28-March 24, 1956, cat. no. 5.

Lynchburg, VA. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. 46th Annual Exhibition. April 28-June 4, 1957.

New York, NY. The Whitney Museum of American Art. Arthur G. Dove (September 30-November 16, 1958); Washington, D.C. The Phillips Collection (November 30, 1958-Jnaury 5, 1959); Boston. The Museum of Fine Arts (January 25-February 28, 1959); San Antonio, TX. Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (March 18-April 18, 1959); Los Angeles, CA. Art Galleries of the University of California (May 1-June 15,1959); La Jolla, CA. La Jolla Art Center (June 20-July 30, 1959); San Francisco , CA. San Francisco Museum of Art (August 15-September 30, 1959),  cat. no. 25.

New York, NY. Museum of Modern Art. Arthur Dove. Traveling exhibition organized by MoMA: Fort Worth, TX. Fort Worth Art Center (March 3-24, 1968); Austin, TX. University Art Museum, University of Texas (April 7-May 1, 1968); Macon, GA. Mercer University Gallery (June 11-July 8, 1968); Brunswick, ME. Bowdoin College Museum of Art (September 9-October 6, 1968); South Hadley, MA. Mount Holyoke College (October 20-November 10, 1968); Jacksonville, FL. Cummer Gallery of Art (January 7-28, 1969); Athens, GA. University of Georgia Art Museum (February 17-March 10, 1969); Mason City, IA. Charles M. MacNider Museum (March 28-April 29, 1969), cat. no. 6.

New York, NY. Gerald Peters Gallery. Prewar/Postwar: Modernism to Modern. September 6-October 5, 2007.

New York, NY. Gerald Peters Gallery. Georgia O’Keeffe and Other Modernists. October 29, 2008-February 26, 2009.

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).

New York, NY. Schoelkopf Gallery. Arthur Dove: Yes, I Could Paint a Cyclone, September 29-December 1, 2023.

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

Letter from Alfred Stieglitz to Arthur Dove, March 30, 1930. Reprinted in Ann Lee Morgan, ed., Dear Stieglitz, Dear Dove. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1988, p. 191.

Letter from Edward Alden Jewell to Arthur Dove, March 31, 1930.

Jewell, Edward Alden. “Telescoping Centuries,” New York Times, April 6, 1930.

Downtown Gallery Records. Gallery Stock: Inventory Cards, Arthur Dove, Titles A-Z and Unknown (1 of 2), circa 1943. Box 64, Reel 5611, Frames 64-65. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Downtown Gallery Records, Photographs of Works of Art: Dove, Arthur. Box 110, Reel 5648, Frames 392. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Morgan, Ann Lee. Arthur Dove: Life and Work, with a Catalogue Raisonné. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1984, cat. no. 29.3, p. 167-168, ill p. 168

Zilczer, Judith. “Synaesthesia and Popular Culture: Arthur Dove, George Gershwin, and the ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’” Art Journal 44, no. 4 (Winter 1984), 362, ill. p. 365, fig. 8.

Cohn, Sherrye. Arthur Dove: Nature as Symbol . Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1985, p. 105.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 31-32, 82-83, 239, 241, 265, ill. pp. 83, 84-85.

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