Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946)
1880-08-02Canandaigua, USA1946-11-23Long Island, USAUSA
Arthur Garfield Dove
Arthur Garfield Dove was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter. Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinations, to produce his abstractions and his abstract landscapes. Me and the Moon from 1937 is a good example of an Arthur Dove abstract landscape and has been referred to as one of the culminating works of his career. Dove did a series of experimental collage works in the 1920s. He also experimented with techniques, combining paints like hand mixed oil or tempera over a wax emulsion as exemplified in Dove's 1938 painting Tanks, in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Date and place of birt: | 2 august 1880, Canandaigua, USA |
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Date and place of death: | 23 november 1946, Long Island, USA |
Nationality: | USA |
Period of activity: | XIX, XX century |
Specialization: | Artist, Painter |
Genre: | Landscape painting |
Art style: | Abstract art, Abstract Expressionism, Underground culture |