Arthur G. Dove


Arthur Dove and Helen Torr. Courtesy of The Heckscher Museum of Art.

Arthur G. Dove was an early American Modernist, and is often considered the first American abstract painter. Dove sought to express the essential spirit of nature using simplified forms and colors distilled from the observed landscape.

Primary Medium: Painting, pencil, charcoal, ink

Primary Stylistic Term: Modernist

HAHS Affiliations: Dove was married to Helen Torr. He was also associated with Georgia O’Keeffe and Charles Demuth.