Arthur Dove ─ A Retrospective

in collaboration with William C. Agee and Elizabeth Hutton Turner The American artistArthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the first artist to have produced an abstract painting, hasalways occupied a central place in writings on early American modernism. This book accompanies thefirst major exhibition on Dove since 1974. The exhibition, organized by the Addison Gallery ofAmerican Art and the Phillips Collection, covers the period from 1908, the year after Dove took uppainting, through 1946, the year of his death. It is comprised of approximately eighty paintings,collages, pastels, and charcoal drawings.Along with Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin, Dove was toutedfor more than three decades by photographer and dealer Alfred Stieglitz as an American original, onewhose work was prescient in its opposition to the materialism of a newly industrialized America.Essays by Balken, Agee, and Turner discuss Dove's interactions with Stieglitz and others in hiscircle, including O'Keeffe, Marin, Marsden Hartley, and Paul Strand, and re-examine Dove in thecontext of early twentieth-century intellectual and cultural history. The book contains color platesof all the works in the exhibition; the essays are profusely illustrated with black-and-white imagesnot included in the exhibition. Apart from an out-of-print catalogue raisonne, this book is thelargest and most comprehensive publication to date on Dove's work.Copublished with the AddisonGallery of American Art in association with the Phillips Collection