LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (height) by 17.99 in. (45.70 cm.) (width)
Markings:
signed 'Dove' (on the reverse)
Exhibited:
New York, Anderson Galleries, Seven Americans, March 9-28, 1925, p. 8, no. 22. New York, Washburn Gallery, Seven Americans: Arthur G. Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth, Paul Strand, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, February 6-March 2, 1974, no. 5. 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. 46, illustrated. Bonn, Germany, Landesmuseum; Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Belgrade Museum of Art; Rome, Italy, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna; Warsaw, Poland, National Museum of Poland; Baltimore, Maryland, Science Center, 200 Years of American Art, June 30, 1976-February 6, 1977. New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., 20th-Century American Painting and Sculpture, June 1977. Edinburgh, Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy; London, Hayward Gallery, The Modern Spirit: American Painting 1908-1935, August 20-November 20, 1977, no. 38. 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. 4, 28-29, 32, 54, 182, pl. 21, frontispiece illustration. Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence, June 7-September 7, 2009, p. 59, pl. 11, illustrated.
Literature:
A.L. Morgan, Arthur Dove: Life and Work, with a Catalogue Raisonne, Newark, New Jersey, 1984, pp. 129-30, no. 23.6, illustrated. A. Klaric, Arthur G. Dove’s Abstract Style of 1912: Dimensions Of The Decorative and Bergsonian Realities, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1984, p. 425, fig. 35, illustrated. R.Z. DeLue, Arthur Dove: Always Connect, Chicago, Illinois, 2016, pp. 69-72, 74, fig. 58, illustrated. C.C. Eldredge, John Steuart Curry's Hoover and the Flood: Painting Modern History, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2007, p. 27. S. Hammond, T. O'Toole, 'Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence,' Antiques & Fine Art, Early Summer 2009, p. 103, illustrated. W.C. Agee, et al., The Scharf Collection: A History Revealed, New York, 2018, pp. 8, 22, 110-12, 115, 176, illustrated.
Provenance:
The Downtown Gallery, New York, by 1961. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Rudin, New York, (probably) acquired from the above. Andrew Crispo Gallery, Inc., New York, by 1974. Sotheby's, New York, 3 December 1987, lot 289, sold by the above. Acquired by the present owner from the above.