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Arthur Dove

(American, 1880–1946)

Arthur Dove

Untitled, ca. 1942

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Biography

Timeline

1880: Born: Canandaigua, NY
1882: Family moved to Geneva, NY
1899 - 1901: Attended Hobart College in Geneva, NY for two years, transferred to Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
1901 - 1903: Pre-law studies at Cornell University, New York, NY
1903: Commercial illustrator in New York, working for "Harper's," "Scribner's," "Collier's," "Life," and the "Saturday Evening Post".
1904: Moved to New York City to work as a free-lance illustrator. Married Frances Dorsey.
1907: Traveled to Europe. Painted in southern France. Met Alfred Maurer.
1909: Returned from France. Resumed illustration as a livelihood.
1910: Birth of son William. Moved to a farm in Westport, CT to pursue farming and illustration. Introduced to Alfred Stieglitz by Alfred Maurer. Made first abstract paintings Abstractions Nos. 1-6
1912: First solo exhibition: Paintings of Arthur Dove, The Gallery of the Photo-Secession (known as 291)
1920: Moved to a houseboat on the Harlem River with artist Helen Torr Weed “Reds.” Purchased forty-two foot yawl “Mona.” For the next seven years Dove lived on his boat in Long Island Sound, Lloyd’s Harbor, Huntington Harbor and Halsite, Long Island.
1926: Sold first painting to Duncan Phillips.
1933: Moved to Geneva, NY to settle family affairs.
1938: Moved to Centerport, Long Island.
1946: Died Huntington Hospital, Long Island

Exhibitions

2010: "Sensory Crossovers - Synesthesia in American Art," The Albuquerque Museum
2009: Dove/O’Keeffe, Circles of Influence, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989 , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2008: Small and Everlasting (1897 -2008) : Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Painting in the United States: 1943-1949, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
The American Evolution - A History through Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Shey Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
2007: Leaders in American Modernism , Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
Babcock Galleries, New York, NY
American Modernism, The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Modern and Contemporary Landscapes - Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2006: American Moderns 1900-1950, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
In the American Grain - Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe, and Stieglitz, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
2005: Recent Acquisitions - Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Villa America - American Moderns - 1900–1950, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The Stieglitz Circle at The Phillips Collection, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Arthur Dove : Watercolors, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2004: Sons & Lumières: Une histoire du son dans l'art du XXe siècle, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
2003: Debating American Modernism - Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Garde, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Summer Landscapes II , Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
2002: Routes toward Modernism - American Painting 1870 - 1950, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2000: Modernism & Abstraction - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
1999: American Modernism from the Stieglitz Group, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
1997 - 1998: Arthur Dove: A Retrospective: The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Arthur G. Dove - Mixing Media, MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (solo)
1995: Arthur Dove Watercolors, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
1974 - 1976: Arthur Dove, San Francisco Museum of Art; Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY; St. Louis Art Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; Des Moines Art Center; Whitney Museum, NY
1968: Arthur Dove, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
Arthur Dove , The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
1958: Arthur Dove, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
1939: Arthur G. Dove: Exhibition of Oils and Temperas, Alfred Stieglitz's Gallery New York, NY (solo)
1936: 131st Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1921: Steiglitz' Gallery 291, New York, NY
1912: Steiglitz' Gallery 291, New York, NY (solo)
: SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Literature

1997: Balken, Debra Bricker. ARTHUR DOVE: A Retrospective. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997
1984: Arthur Dove: Life and Work with a Catalogue Raisonne’, Ann Lee Morgan, Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1984
1974: Arthur Dove, Barbara Haskell, San Francisco Museum of Art, NY Graphic Society, 1974

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Arthur Dove

(American, 1880–1946)

Arthur Dove

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

Arthur Dove

(American, 1880–1946)

Arthur Dove

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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