Storm Clouds
1935 · Wax emulsion on canvas in artist-made frame
Dimensions : 15 x 21 1/8 in. (38.1 x 53.7 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006
As its title suggests, this work portrays a stormy landscape, but one dramatically abstracted into a series of arched and rolling bands of color surrounding a large eyelike shape. Dove’s colors are the muted shades of earth and overcast sky, with the silvery, metallic sheen of the artist-made frame echoing and enhancing the grays of the composition. Like many avant-garde artists, Dove experimented with abstraction as a way to pursue an inner vision: he simplified his subjects to their most basic, organic forms, expressing a spiritual force beyond their tangible reality.
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About this artwork
Storm Clouds (1935) by Arthur Dove, Wax emulsion on canvas in artist-made frame, 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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