LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on tin

Measurements:

20.24 in. (51.40 cm.) (height) by 28.27 in. (71.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Dove' (lower right)

Exhibited:

New York, An American Place, Arthur G. Dove , March 22-April 22, 1930, no. 8. San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Paintings by Arthur Dove , April 22-May 19, 1947. Houston, Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Arthur G. Dove, Charles Sheeler , January 7-23, 1951, no. 3 (as Ship Coming Thru Inlet ). Iowa City, Iowa, University of Iowa, The New Gallery, Vintage Moderns, American Pioneer Artists: 1903-1932, May 24-August 2, 1962, p. 12, no. 20, illustrated. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Forerunners of American Abstraction , November 18, 1971-January 9, 1972, no. 25 (as Going thro' Inlet )

Literature:

A.L. Morgan, Arthur Dove: Life and Work, With a Catalogue Raisonné, Newark, Delaware, 1984, pp. 179-80, no. 30.3, illustrated

Provenance:

The artist. Estate of the above. [With]The Downtown Gallery, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Titelman, Pennsylvania, acquired from the above, 1965. Ira Spanierman, Inc., New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1982