| Arthur Dove belonged to a pioneering group of artists whose increasingly abstract
style radically changed the course of American art. After returning from a
1908–1909
trip to Paris, where he had studied the work of the impressionists and the
fauves, he began a lifelong experimentation with abstraction, color, and medium.
Arguably
the first artist of any nationality to make an abstract painting, Dove nevertheless
always tied his images to the land and the sea he loved. He lived on farms
and near the ocean for much of his life and supplemented his income through
farming
and fishing. . . .
:: Sarah Cash, Bechhoefer Curator of American Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art |
Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from
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