Hand Sewing Machine
1927 · Oil, cut and pasted linen, resin, and graphite on sheet metal, with artist-made frame
Dimensions : 14 7/8 x 19 3/4 in. (37.8 x 50.2 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Hand Sewing Machine is one of twenty-five mixed-media works that Dove created during the 1920s. The machine is painted on a sheet of aluminum, whose dull silver surface remains visible in certain areas. The fabric being stitched is an actual piece of linen. A hand-operated sewing machine such as this one would have already been considered old-fashioned by the 1920s. However, Dove and his wife owned one and used it in their daily lives.
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About this artwork
Hand Sewing Machine (1927) by Arthur Dove, 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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