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ARTHUR G. DOVE (1880-1946)

Lot 10
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Lot 10 | ARTHUR G. DOVE (1880-1946)
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ARTHUR G. DOVE (1880-1946)

Through a Frosty Moon

signed 'Dove' (lower center)

oil and wax emulsion on canvas

15 x 21 in. (38.1 x 53.3 cm.)

Painted in 1941.





Provenance

The artist, 1941.

An American Place, New York, 1941.

Duncan Phillips, Washington, D.C., acquired from the above, 1941.

James McLaughlin, Washington, D.C., gift from the above, 1950.

Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, 1979.

Robert H. Ginter, Los Angeles, California, acquired from the above, 1979.

Estate of the above.

Christie's, New York, 9 December 1983, lot 301, sold by the above.

Private collection, Boca Raton, Florida, acquired from the above.

Parrish and Reinish Gallery, New York, 1995.

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1998.



Literature

S. Wallis, "The Natural," Art & Antiquities, vol. 20, October 1997, p. 121.

A.L. Morgan, Arthur Dove: Life and Work, with a Catalogue Raisonné, Newark, Delaware, 1984, pp. 280, 282, no. 41.16, illustrated.

D.B. Balken, Arthur Dove: A Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, Andover, Massachusetts, 1998, p. 141, fig. 55, illustrated.

D.B. Balken, Arthur Dove: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Things, New Haven, Connecticut, 2021, p. 281, no. 1941.19, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, An American Place, Exhibition of New Arthur G. Dove Paintings, March 27-May 17, 1941, no. 11 (as Frosty Moon).

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The One Hundred Thirty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, January 23-February 27, 1944, no. 77 (as Frosty Moon).

Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Advanced Trends in Contemporary American Art, April 4-30, 1944, n.p., no. 104.

London, Tate Gallery, American Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, June-July 1946, p. 12, no. 65.

Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Art Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition of Painting by Arthur G. Dove, April 18-September 22, 1947.

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Privately Owned: A Selection of Works of Art from Collections in the Washington Area, February 10-March 30, 1952, pp. 59, 61, no. 341, illustrated.

San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art; Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis Art Museum; Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago; Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Arthur Dove, November 21, 1974-January 18, 1976, p. 103, no. 68, illustrated.

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art; Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts; Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, New Milwaukee Art Center, Arthur Dove and Duncan Phillips: Artist and Patron, June 13, 1981-November 14, 1982, pp. 1, 62, 128, no. 65, pl. 63, illustrated.

Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, A Family Album: Brooklyn Collects, March 2-July 1, 2001.
Artist:Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Modern art
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