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Arthur G. Dove | |||
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1880 in Canandaigua, NY Died 1946 in Huntington, NY |
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| The Derrick, 1931 | ||||
| oil
paint on canvas 30 1/8 x 40 1/8 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust, and the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 2000.4 |
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| Dove studied law and worked
as an illustrator before creating what are arguably the earliest works of
pure abstraction. Alfred Stieglitz showed Dove's work in 1912, marking the
first public exhibition of American abstract art. Dove based his work on
nature, but chose abstraction as the language of his expression, seeking
to reveal the inner life and spiritual forces of nature rather than its
physical representation. |
