Word: doves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next quarter, play slowly switched in favor of the home team. Bagnoli made one beautiful save near the end of the period to keep the game scoreless, when a Princeton forward broke free and shot for the goal from a distance of no more than 15 feet. Bagnoli dove for the ball and just knocked it out of the nets...
...traveled on his lonely way is shown by the largest-ever collection of Dove's work now starting a crosscountry tour at Manhattan's Whitney Museum, and a new book by Art Critic Frederick S. Wight (Arthur G. Dove; University of California; $2). Together they go far to establish Dove's status as the U.S.'s first abstract painter and a pivotal figure in contemporary...
Much as Maine Painter John Marin (another Stieglitz protege) chose the sky as his province, Dove made the earth and sea his domain. To get closer to both, he moved out of Manhattan, where he had been a successful illustrator, and bought a farm in Westport, Conn., began raising chickens. When that venture failed, he tried his hand at being a lobsterman. Art, he decided, should not depend so much on natural forms as on substituting equivalent images for them. He was searching for a means of expression that would not depend on representation, that "should have order, size, intensity...
...Dove left his wife and son, went to live on a scow on Manhattan's Harlem River. Finally he managed to scrape together enough money to buy an old 42-ft. yawl from his friend and benefactor, William S. Hart, oldtime cowboy star of the silent movies. With his second wife, he cruised Long Island Sound for the next eleven years. Wind, water and sand became the essence of some of Dove's best work. Ferry Boat Wreck-Oyster Bay (1931) catches the essence of a lurking hulk beneath the sound's green water and the fiery...
...dying in an abandoned post office in Centerport, L.I. that he had bought as a studio-home, he watched the sea gulls flying past his window. "Their beaks," he wrote, "look like ivory thrown slowly through space." In words, it was the quality and response to nature Dove had spent all his life attempting to capture in paint...