# Car across the Street

- By: Arthur Dove (born Canandaigua, NY 1880-died Huntington, NY 1946)
- Date: 1940
- Medium: pen and ink and watercolor on paper
- Classification: Drawings
- Dimensions: sheet: 5 1/2 x 8 7/8 in. (14.1 x 22.5 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=6986)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/06ef1bdaa380c4a5161ed74bb26e7ec8.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Dove suffered from various illnesses that kept him housebound for weeks at a time. Nevertheless he painted the world that was visible from his glass-enclosed front porch. For a painter inspired by nature, this confinement was frustrating, but Dove transformed the nearby activity into imaginative compositions. In this watercolor, he created a colorful, visually exciting scene from an otherwise banal subject, the neighbor’s car. Defined by only two black lines, the car seems to merge with the surrounding environment.