LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and pencil on canvas

Measurements:

18.11 in. (46.00 cm.) (height) by 21.73 in. (55.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed and dated 'Dove/30' (l.r.)

Exhibited:

New York, An American Place, Arthur Dove: 27 New Paintings, March 22-April 22, 1930, no. 24. New York, The Downtown Gallery, Arthur G. Dove, 1880-1946: Paintings, April 22-May 10, 1952, no. 3. Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta Public Library; Shreveport, Louisiana, Louisiana State Exhibit Museum; Louisville, Kentucky, J.B. Speed Art Museum; Williamstown, Massachusetts, Lawrence Art Museum; Chattanooga, Tennessee, George Thomas Hunter Gallery; Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Museum; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Art Center; Albuquerque, New Mexico, New Mexico Art League; Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Museum; New York, Rose Fried Gallery, Pioneers of American Abstract Art, December 1, 1955-January 9, 1957, p. 5, no. 10. Sarasota, Florida, Art Association, 1958. Iowa City, Iowa, State University of Iowa, School of Fine Arts, Twentieth Annual Festival of Fine Arts: Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings, June 18-August 13, 1958, no. 8. Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, September 28-November 11, 1962. Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, 1962-63, on loan. Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Roots of Abstract Art in America, 1910-1930, December 2, 1965-January 9, 1966, no. 68. Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum, Arthur G. Dove of Long Island Sound, August 20-September 17, 1967, no. 6. Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Edith Gregor Halpert Memorial Exhibition, April 7-June 25, 1972, no. 6. San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Arthur Dove, November 21, 1974-January 5, 1975.

Literature:

A.L. Morgan, Arthur Dove: Life and Work, With a Catalogue Raisonné, Newark, Delaware, 1984, pp. 186-87, no. 30.17, pl. 30.17, illustrated. J. Barnitz, et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Art of the Western Hemisphere, vol. II, New York, 1988, pp. 73-75, no. 33, illustrated. A. Hammond, 'Ansel Adams: Natural Scene,' The Archive (University of Arizona), vol. 27, April 1990, illustrated. A. Gussow, R. Wilbur, D. Brower, A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land, Washington, D.C., 1997, n.p., illustrated. S. Field, In Sight, Hanover, New Hampshire, 2004, p. 8.

Provenance:

The Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, New York. Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 20th Century American Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture: The Edith Gregor Halpert Collection (The Downtown Gallery), 14 March 1973, lot 56. Acquired by the late owners from the above.