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...historical galleries and moves on to those devoted to the present, he has a sense of having been there before. The descendants of Marcel Duchamps' "readymades"-a bicycle wheel, a bottle rack, a urinal, all shown just as they are, but out of context -are everywhere. Arthur Dove used needlepoint, some old shingles, and a page from the Concordance to evoke the essence of Grandmother, just as Edith Schloss uses worn and faded materials for her nostalgic Dow Road and Stephan Durkee for his affecting Sale. The futurists' obsession with the automobile finds its echo...
Arthur Garfield Dove owed his given names to the Republican presidential ticket* of 1880, the year he was born in Upstate New York. But he owed nothing to their plodding example, for Dove was a trail blazer. Long before fashions changed. Dove pointed-and painted-toward abstract expressionism. After a start as a successful magazine illustrator, he turned to illustrating inner vision rather than outer void. Wrote Humorist Bert L. Taylor of Dove...
...first. Dove painted in the style of Cézanne. But later, he would omit what he called "innumerable little facts" to try for the essence of the subject. Thus he could paint Clouds and Summer (see color) in a way that told much about all clouds and every summer...
Seeking insights, he began with out-sights. "Have been trying to memorize this storm all day so that I can paint it,'' wrote Dove. When memory joined method to produce patterns of color, with representation virtually removed, he started toward a style that a whole generation of modern American artists have since pursued. In 1910 he painted abstractions and called them just that. Dove "found a new way of presenting his feelings for landscape even before the Russian-born Kandinsky ∣Europe's "father of abstractionism" ∣ hit upon a similar method of freeing colors and lines...
...Dove's flight was no easy one. The public would not fly along with him. Before his death in 1946, he perched in many New York and Connecticut rookeries (yawl, yacht club, farmhouse, abandoned roller skating rink, abandoned post office) and pecked away at many trades (chicken farmer, lobsterman ). But he worked stubbornly at translating matter into spirit, and buried in the ground work that failed his standards. Currently on display in a major retrospective at the Worcester Art Museum are 43 works that stayed above ground. They look contemporary as can be; and perhaps...