Calendar of Birds and Beasts: Spring
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
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Arthur Dove · 1880–1946
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, ...