Artist: Arthur Garfield Dove
Date: 1943
Size: 67 x 87 cm
Technique: Oil On Canvas
This horizontal, abstract painting is made up of flat areas of red, yellow, blue, green, brown, and orange to create shapes with curving, scalloped edges, zigzagging, teeth-like edges, or straight edges. Three rays seem to emanate from the bottom left corner with bands of pine green at the top, brown at the center, and yellow at the bottom. An opposing diagonal band of shapes crosses the rays from the top left to bottom right corner. That band is cherry red across the green and brown, and royal blue next to the yellow ray. The left border of the band is curved like scallops, and the right-hand edge is narrow, long zigzags. The rays change color past this band to be blue across the top, yellow at the center, and orange below. A tall brown form, like an abstracted tree trunk, extends up along the right edge of the painting. Fields of green to either side could suggest a tree’s canopy and grass. There are yellow speckles in one of the red areas, and green speckles in one of the yellow areas. The artist signed the work across two field of color at the bottom center. His name, “Dove,” is painted with blue letters “DOV” against a yellow background and the final “E” in yellow against the blue field.
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