Arthur Garfield Dove
Arthur Garfield Dove (born August 2, 1880 in Canandaigua , New York ; died November 23, 1946 in Huntington , New York) was an American painter. Dove was one of the first abstract American artists to paint. Like Wassily Kandinsky, he painted his first abstract paintings based on landscape and natural forms around 1911/12.
life and work
Dove was born into a wealthy family. His parents, William George and Anna Elizabeth, were of English descent. The father was a politically active and successful businessman who owned his own brick factory and owned properties in the city.
As a boy Arthur Dove took an interest in piano, took painting lessons, and played baseball in high school. The neighbor, a hobby painter, introduced the boy to landscape and nature painting.
Dove graduated from Cornell University , where he drew attention to himself with skillful illustrations for the university yearbook. After graduation, he began working as a commercial illustrator in New York City . In 1907 Dove and his first wife moved to Paris where he joined a group of experimental American artists. The budding artist explored new painting styles and was mainly inspired by the Fauve and Henri Matisse . In 1908 and 1909 he exhibited his work in the autumn salon . With the clear awareness of working as an artist in the future, he returned to New York. Unsatisfied with his work as a commercial artist, he moved from New York to the countryside to work as a farmer and fisherman and to devote himself to painting.
In 1909 he met Alfred Stieglitz , who befriended him and invited him to exhibit in his new gallery 291 . In 1910, Dove showed his work in the group exhibition Young American Painters in Stieglitz 'gallery. In 1912 Dove's first solo exhibition at Stieglitz followed. Alfred Stieglitz had some influence on Dove's identity as an artist. Both shared the conviction that art should not be oriented towards materialism and traditions, but rather should embody modern spiritual values. Stieglitz, who was already familiar with Kandinsky's abstractions, got Dove to experiment with abstract forms as well. In the exhibition of 1912 Dove showed a series of pastel works under the title Ten Commandments ( The Ten Commandments ), the first non-figurative painting of an American artist. Dove soon became the leading painter of a new American progressive art. From 1912 to 1946 Dove regularly showed work in Stieglitz 'galleries 291 , Intimate Gallery and An American Place .
literature
- D. Newman: Arthur Dove and Duncan Phillips, Artist and Patron . George Braziller Inc., 1981, ISBN 0-8076-1019-4 .
- Debra Bricker Bar Arthur Dove: A Retrospective . MIT Press, 1997 ISBN 0-262-02433-0 .
- Melanie Kirschner: Arthur Dove: Watercolors and Pastels . George Braziller Inc., 1999, ISBN 0-8076-1447-5 .
Web links
- Search for Arthur Garfield Dove in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Arthur Garfield Dove on kunstaspekte.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dove, Arthur Garfield |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dove, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Canandaigua , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1946 |
| Place of death | Huntington , New York |