Arthur Dove American, 1880-1946
12.7 x 17.8 cm
In 1930, Dove took a page from the playbook of his nineteenth-century artistic forbears and began sketching out of doors on a regular basis, producing dozens of watercolors, many of which he used as the basis for his paintings. Dove based Brickyard Shed, for example, on a watercolor sketch he made on the spot, in front of the motif. The lyrical lines, staccato brush marks, and fluid washes of the sketch register the rapidity with which Dove recorded his impressions of the subject as well as his pleasure in doing so.
Provenance
The artist;Mrs. William C. Janss, Sun Valley, Idaho, 1984;
[Alexandre Gallery, New York, 2003]; to
Private collection, New York, 2004, until the present
Exhibitions
(Probably) An American Place, New York, Arthur G. Dove, no. 34/50(Probably) The Downtown Gallery, New York, Arthur Dove, no. 50
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, An American Place, May 24–July 19, 1981
Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Arthur Dove: Paintings and Watercolors, November 21–December 19, 1981, no. 31
Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, Arthur Dove: Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Collages, November 3–December 29, 1984
Menconi + Schoelkopf Fine Art, New York, A Century of American Art: 1866–1966, 2018, no. 17, illus. in color p. 42
Marlborough, New York, In Search of the Miraculous, January 24–March 11, 2023, p. 13, illus. in color
Literature
Debra Bricker Balken and Anne Cohen DePietro, Arthur Dove Watercolors, New York: Alexandre Gallery, 2006, p. 10, fig. 5, illus. in color
Debra Bricker Balken, Arthur Dove: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Things, New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 200, illus. in color
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