Goat
1935 · Oil on canvas with selective varnish
Dimensions : 23 x 31 in. (58.4 x 78.7 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Living on his family farm in Geneva, New York, from 1933 to 1938, Dove frequently drew and painted the local barnyard animals. The goat here is depicted not in naturalistic colors but in the tones of soil, foliage, water, and sky, making the animal seem part of the landscape itself. This painting was first exhibited in 1935, in the artists annual exhibition of new work at Alfred Stieglitzs New York gallery.
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Goat (1935) by Arthur Dove, oil on canvas with selective varnish, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Arthur Dove
Arthur Garfield Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946) was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter. Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinations, to produce his abstractions and his abstract landscapes.
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