Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Untitled (Landscape)
Arthur Dove (born Canandaigua, NY 1880-died Huntington, NY 1946)
ca. 1938
- Medium
- ink and watercolor on paper mounted on paperboard
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- sheet and image: 5 1/2 x 9 1/8 in. (14 x 23.2 cm)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Graphic Arts
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Arthur Dove began creating small watercolors as studies for larger paintings, but he came to appreciate them as stand-alone works and by the 1930s began to include them in exhibitions. Lyrical color and freely sketched forms reveal Dove’s impulsive, of-the-moment response to nature and his surroundings. Although celebrated as one of the country’s most accomplished abstract artists, Dove captures the American landscape through gestural lines and washes of color.
