Sun
Arthur Dove
1943
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Suzanne M. Smith
Accession Number
1989.83.3
Tags
Abstractsun
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, ...