Arthur Garfield Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946) was an American artist. He was one of America's first abstract painters. August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Look up artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Black square by Kazimir Malevich Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way. ...

Dove was born to a wealthy family in Canandaigua, New York. As a child he was befriended by a neighbor named Newton Weatherby. Weatherby was a naturalist who helped form Dove’s appreciation of nature. He was also an amateur painter who gave Dove pieces of leftover canvas to work with. There are two local governmental bodies known as Canandaigua and both are in Ontario County, New York. ...

At college he was chosen to illustrate the Cornell University yearbook. After graduation he became a well known commercial illustrator in New York City. Cornell redirects here. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City...

In 1907, Dove and his wife traveled to France. While there he joined a group of experimental artists from the United States. One of these artists was Alfred Henry Maurer. Dove and Maurer remained friends until Maurer’s suicide in 1932. An Arrangement, oil on cardboard Alfred Henry Maurer (1868 – August 4, 1932) was an American painter born in New York City. ...

Dove returned to America in 1909 and met Alfred Stiegltiz. Alfred Stiegltiz was a well known photographer and gallery owner who was very active in promoting modern art in America. He was also the husband of Georgia O’Keeffe. With Stiegltiz’s support, Dove produced what is known as the first purely abstract paintings to come out of America. Georgia O’Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950 Georgia Totto OKeeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist, widely regarded as one of the greatest modernist painters of the 20th century. ...

Dove's work was based on nature and he referred to his form of abstraction as "extraction," pulling the abstract forms out from a landscape. This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

He used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinations. Dove also invented an experimental technique that involved applying paints like hand mixed oil or tempera over a wax emulsion. The pigments from the paint then bond to the wax molecules. A 1367 tempera on wood by Niccolò Semitecolo. ...

In spite of support from various members of the art community, it was often necessary for Dove to earn money through farming, fishing and commercial illustration.

He spent a seven year period on a houseboat called Mona after separating from his first wife in 1920. He suffered a heart attack in 1939. His health never fully returned. Arthur Dove died on November 23, 1946 following a second heart attack and kidney failure. November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

Selected works

Nature Symbolized (1911)	Thunderstorm (1917-20)	Dark Abstraction (Woods) (1920)	Nature Symbolized or Reefs (1924)
The Intellectual (1925)	The Critic (1925)	Me and the Moon (1937)	Tanks (1938)

Selected list of works

• 1910 Abstraction No. 1 - 6
• 1911 Movement No. 1
• 1911 Nature Symbolized
• ca. 1911 Nature Symbolized, No. 2
• 1911 - 2 Sails
• ca. 1912 Plant Forms
• ca. 1912 - 3 A Walk: Poplars
• 1915 Plant Form
• 1917 - 20 Gear
• 1917 - 20 Thunderstorm
• 1920 Dark Abstraction (Woods)
• ca. 1921 Thunderstorm
• 1923 Moon and Sea II
• 1923 Chinese Music
• 1924 Sunrise
• 1924 Starry Heavens
• 1924 Nature Symbolized or Reefs
• 1925 The Intellectual
• 1925 Goin’ Fishin’
• 1925 The Critic
• 1926 Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz
• 1927 George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue Part 1
• 1928 Composition
• 1928 Sea Gull Motive (also known as Sea Thunder or The Wave)
• 1929 Foghorns
• 1929 Wind (number 1)
• 1929 Harbor in Light
• 1929 Moth Dance
• 1930 - ? Brick Barge with Landscape
• 1931 Ice and Clouds
• 1931 Fields of Grain as Seen from Train
• 1931 Ferry Boat Wreck
• 1931 Pine Tree
• 1931 Two Forms
• 1931 Abstract from Threshing Engine
• 1931 Steam Boat - Northport
• 1932 Gale
• 1932 Dawn III
• 1932 Sunday
• ca. 1933 Sun Drawing Water
• 1934 Trees
• 1934 Trees II
• 1934 Brickyard Shed
• 1934 - ? Sowing Wheat
• 1935 Red Sun
• 1935 Snowstorm
• 1935 Barns
• 1935 Tree I
• 1936 Windy Morning
• 1937 Me and the Moon
• 1937 Happy Landscape
• 1937 - ? Water Swirl, Canandaigua Outlet
• 1938 Shore Front
• 1938 Tanks
• 1938 Holbrook’s Bridge to the Northwest
• 1938 Swing Music (Louis Armstrong)
• 1939 Continuity
• 1940 Abstract Still Life
• 1940 Syosset
• 1940 Black and White
• 1941 Our House
• 1941 Pyramid Formation
• 1941 The Brothers #1
• 1941 Landscape
• 1942 The Brothers
• 1943 Space Divided by Line Motive (U.S.A.)
• 1943 Sun
• 1943 Sand and Sea
• 1936 - 44 Fire the Sauerkraut Factory, West X, New York
• 1944 That Red One
• 1944 High Noon
• 1945 Figure 4
• ca. 1946 Untitled (Abstraction)

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Sources

• Raynor, Vivien (1983-10-16). Out of History's Mists Comes Arthur Dove. Retrieved on 2006-06-03.