Calendar of Birds and Beasts: Spring
Arthur Dove
1905
Medium
color offset lithograph on card stock
Dimensions
image: 31.12 × 27.94 cm (12 1/4 × 11 in.) sheet: 45.09 × 33.81 cm (17 3/4 × 13 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)
Accession Number
2015.19.1055
About the Artist
Arthur Dove
Arthur Garfield Dove (1880–1946) was an American painter widely regarded as one of the first artists to create fully abstract works in the United States, a pioneer whose lyrical, nature-inspired abstractions gave American modernism a distinctly organic and spiritual character. Born in Canandaigua, New York, Dove initially worked as a commercial illustrator before traveling to Europe in 1907–1909, ...