LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pastel on paperboard

Measurements:

17.99 in. (45.70 cm.) (height) by 21.50 in. (54.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Dove' (lower left)

Exhibited:

New York, Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (“291”), Arthur G. Dove First Exhibition Anywhere, February 27-March 12, 1912. Chicago, Illinois, W. Scott Thurber Galleries, Paintings of Arthur Dove, March 14-30, 1912. New York, National Arts Club, Exhibition of Contemporary Art, February 5-March 7, 1914, no. 20, illustrated. (Probably) Anderson Galleries, Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters, March 13-25, 1916. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, History of an American, Alfred Stieglitz, '291' and After, July 1-November 1, 1944, no. 251. New York, The Downtown Gallery, Abstract Painting in America, 1903-1923, March 27-April 21, 1962, no. 16 (as Factory Chimneys). Iowa City, Iowa, University of Iowa, Department of Art, The New Gallery, Vintage Moderns, American Pioneer Artists: 1903-1932, May 24-August 2, 1962, pp. 11-12, no. 16, illustrated. New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., 20th Century American Masters, September-November 1978, no. 46. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Buildings: Architecture in American Modernism, October 29-November 29, 1980, no. 28. London, Tate Gallery, Abstraction: Towards a New Art; Painting 1910-1920, February 5-April 13, 1980, no. 428 (as Nature Symbolised). Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art; Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts; 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, no. 10. New York, Phillip Morris Inc. (organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art), The Forum Exhibition: Selections and Additions, May 18-June 22, 1983, p. 21, illustrated. Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover Alumni Collectors, April 29-July 31, 1995. Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Andover, Massachusetts, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Arthur Dove: A Retrospective, September 20, 1997-October 4, 1998, pp. 21, 42, 181, no. 9, illustrated. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Picasso and American Art, September 28, 2006-January 28, 2007, pp. 34, 40, 384, pl. 10, illustrated.

Literature:

J.E. Chamberlin, 'Pattern Paintings by A.G. Dove,' Evening Mail, New York, March 2, 1912, p. 8. G.C. Cook, 'Causerie (Post-Impressionism After Seeing Mr. Dove's Pictures),' Chicago Evening Post Literary Review, March 29, 1912. F.S. Wight, Arthur G. Dove, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, California, 1958, p. 35. W.I. Homer, Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde, New York, 1977, pp. 114-15, fig. 32, illustrated. W.I. Homer, 'Identifying Arthur Dove's 'The Ten Commandments,'' American Art Journal, vol. 12, Summer 1980, pp. 24, 32, illustrated. A. Klaric, Arthur G. Dove’s Abstract Style of 1912: Dimensions of the Decorative and Bergsonian Realities, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1984, pp. 35-36, 67n3, 72-76, 169, 172, 180-84, 209, 211, 242, 272-73, 279-82, 306, 411, illustrated. A.L. Morgan, Arthur Dove: Life and Work with a Catalogue Raisonné, Newark, Delaware, 1984, pp. 43-44, 105-06, no. 11/12.4, illustrated. S.A. Prince, The Old Guard and the Avant-Garde: Modernism in Chicago, 1910-1940, Chicago, Illinois, 1990, pp. 27, 30, fig. 2.3, illustrated. P. Richard, 'Arthur Dove and the Abstract Question,' The Washington Post, September 21, 1997, illustrated. M. Kirschner, Arthur Dove: Watercolors and Pastels, New York, 1998, p. 28. B. Haskell, Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2005, pp. 43-44, fig. 32, illustrated. R.Z. DeLue, Arthur Dove: Always Connect, Chicago, Illinois, 2016, p. 168. W.C. Agee, et al., The Scharf Collection: A History Revealed, New York, 2018, pp. 16-18, 176, illustrated. A. Pensler, Arthur Dove: A Reassessment, Seattle, Washington, 2018, pp. 37, 91, fig. 12, illustrated.

Provenance:

Alfred Stieglitz, New York. The Downtown Gallery, New York. Heyward Cutting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, acquired from the above, 1959. Private collection, New York. Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., New York. ACA Galleries, Inc., New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1994.