Representative work by Arthur Dove
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Arthur Dove

1880–1946 · American

  • Cornell University

Arthur Dove was among the earliest American artists to make sustained nonobjective paintings. Working from natural forms, weather, sound and landscape, he developed abstractions that are less geometric than organic and atmospheric.

Painting; collage

Major Works

  • 1911Nature Symbolized No. 2
  • 1929Foghorns
  • 1937Me and the Moon
  • 1940Thunder Shower
  • 1935Moon
  • 1936Sunrise III
  • 1925The Critic
  • 1929Silver Sun →
  • 1910–11Abstraction No. 3
  • 1931Fields of Grain as Seen from Train

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