Biografie von Arthur Garfield DOVE (1880-1946)

Birth place: Canandaigua, NY

Death place: Huntington, NY

Addresses: Westport, CT, 1910-20; on his boat The Mona and in Halesite, NY; on farm in Geneva, NY, 1934-

Profession: Painter, illustrator

Studied: Cornell, 1903; (comm. illus., 1903-07); Paris, 1908-09.

Exhibited: Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1908, 1909 (he showed The Lobster"); Stieglitz's "291" Gal., 1910 ("Younger American Painters" show), 1912 (solo); Stieglitz's "Intimate Gallery" 1925; An American Place; S.Indp.A., 1917; Salons of Am., 1930; AIC, 1940, 1945; PAFA, 1944-45; restrospectives: Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst.,1947, Cornell, 1954, UCLA, WMAA, Phillips Gal., BMFA; La Jolla Art Center, SFMA, all in the 1950s; also: Heckscher Mus., 1989 (exh. of Arthur Dove and Helen Torr Dove); R. York Gal., NYC, 1990 (solo); AGAA and Phillips Coll., 1997/98 (retrospective)"

Member: Am. Soc. PS & G.

Work: MMA; MoMA; Albright-Knox Gal., Buffalo; AIC; BM; MOMA; Univ. Minnesota; Phillips Mem. Gal.; Detroit IA; Nat. Gal., Wash, DC; Phila. MA; Smith College; Yale Univ.

Comments: Pioneering abstract painter. Dove worked as an illustrator for Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, Scribner's, Century, Harper's, and Life before going to Paris in 1908. He remained there until 1909 becoming acquainted with modern art. Returning to the U.S., Dove became part of Stieglitz's circle. One of the earliest American artist's to explore non-representational painting, Dove's approach to abstraction was always rooted in his response to natural forms and real objects.

Sources: WW40; Debra Bricker Balken, Arthur Dove: A Retrospective, with contributions from William C. Agee and Elizabeth Hutton Turner (Addison Gal. of Amer. Art, MIT Press in assoc. with the Phillips Collection, Wash., DC, 1997); Anne Lee Morgan, Arthur Dove: Life and Work, with a Catalogue RaisonnÈ (Univ. of Delaware Press, 1984); Barbara Haskell, Arthur Dove (1975); Abraham Davidson, Early American Modernist Painting, 1910-1935; W. Homer, Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in America, 66; Baigell, Dictionary; 300 Years of American Art, 763; Falk, Exh. Record Series.