Space Divided by Line Motive
1943
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 60.96 × 81.28 cm (24 × 32 in.) framed: 66.68 × 86.68 × 3.81 cm (26 1/4 × 34 1/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)
Accession Number
2014.136.105
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, ...