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Home > Art > Penetration

Penetration

Artist

Arthur Dove

Date

1924

Medium

Oil on board

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 21 1/4 x W- 17 5/8 in. (54 x 44.8 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

2013.01.01

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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The Artist;
[The Intimate Gallery, New York, NY, 1926];
Henry Raleigh, February 3, 1926;
Holly Beckwith, Shelter Island, NY;
[Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, NY];
[ACA Galleries, New York, NY];
[Sotheby’s, New York, NY, December 3, 1987, lot 320];
Peter and Kirsten Bedford Collection, 1987;
[The Owings Gallery, Santa Fe, NM];

New York, NY. The Intimate Gallery. Arthur G. Dove. January-February, 1926.

New York, NY. Andrew Crispo Gallery. Pioneers of American Abstraction. October-November. 1973, cat. no. 47a.

Westport, CT. Westport Public Library. Westport Artists of the Past: A Bicentennial Exhibition of 1976. June 12-30, 1976, ill. n.p.

New York, NY. Andrew Crispo Gallery. American Masters of the 20th Century. June-September 1978.

Washington, D.C. The Phillips Collection. Arthur Dove: A Retrospective (September 20, 1997-January 4, 1998); New York, NY. Whitney Museum of American Art (January 15-April 12, 1998); Andover, MA. Addison Gallery of American Art (April 25-July 12, 1998); Los Angeles, CA. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (August 2-October 4, 1998), p. 28, ill. pl. 20, p. 53.

Williamstown, MA. Clark Art Institute. Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence. June 7-September 7, 2009, p. 59, 65, ill. pl. 10.

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).

Oxford, England. Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Oxford. America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper, March 23-July 22, 2018.

Cheney, Sheldon. A Primer of Modern Art. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1924, p. 239.

Writings: Diaries (1924-1926). Arthur and Helen Torr Dove Papers, Box 1, Folder 54, Frame 11. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Writings: Excerpts (1925-1939), undated. Arthur and Helen Torr Dove Papers, Box 2, Folder 15, Frame 5. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Seligmann, Herbert J. Alfred Stieglitz Talking: Notes on Some of His Conversations, 1925-1931. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966, p. 24.

Loring, John. “The Collectors: The Refinements of Art Deco: Andrew Crispo in New York,” Architectural Digest (March 1980),ill. p. 107.

Yeh, Susan Fillin. “Innovative Moderns: Arthur G. Dove and Georgia O’Keeffe.” Arts Magazine 56 (June 1982), p. 72, ill. p. 70, fig. 12.

Morgan, Ann Lee. Arthur Dove: Life and Work with a Catalogue Raisonné . London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1984, cat. no. 24.5, pp. 49, 132, ill. p. 133.

Property from the Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc. Collection. Sotheby’s. Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. December 3, 1987, lot 320, ill.

ACA Galleries advertisement. Art & Antiques (April 1988), p. 16, ill.

Smith, Roberta. “Art Review: ‘Dove/O’Keeffe’, Partners in Abstraction, Viewed in Tandem,” New York Times, August 14, 2009.

Tomlin, Patrick L.  “The Origins of Abstraction: Arthur Dove and American Modernism, 1910-1930.” PhD dissertation, Northwestern University, 2013,pp. 157-160,  ill. p. 300, no. 50.

O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, ill. p. 64.

DeLue, Rachael Z.  Arthur Dove: Always Connect. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, pp. 66-69, 72, 74, ill. p. 67.

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