Rain
Arthur Dove
1924
Medium
twigs and rubber cement on metal and glass
Dimensions
overall: 49.5 x 39.7 cm (19 1/2 x 15 5/8 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Avalon Fund
Accession Number
1997.1.1
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, ...