A horizontal black stripe intersects the bottom of two large blue-black rings with a yellow sun in the center.
A horizontal black stripe intersects the bottom of two large blue-black rings with a yellow sun in the center.

The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
By descent to the Artist’s daughter, Tori Dove;
[Andy Dintenfass, New York];
[Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM];

Houston, Texas. Robinson Galleries. Arthur Dove: “Mainly the Forties” (September 4-October 6, 1975); Beaumont, Texas. Beaumont Art Museum (October 31-November 30, 1975); Waco, Texas. Waco Creative Art Center (January 10-February 14, 1976); San Antonio, Texas. Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute (April 4-May 9, 1976); np., ill.

Tulsa. 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. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).

Downtown Gallery Records, Photographs of Works of Art: Dove, Arthur. Box 110, Reel 5648, Frames 472-473. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 33, 96-97, 265, ill. p. 97.

Pochoda, Elizabeth. “Freedom and the abstract truth: Jan and Marica Vilcek’s collection of American modernist art,” The Magazine Antiques (May/June 2013), p. 99, ill. p. 96, fig. 3.

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