Hound (Hound that came with the House)
Arthur Garfield DOVE
(American, 1880-1946)
Hound (Hound that came with the House)
Date1934
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 18 x 22 x 1 3/4 in. (45.7 x 55.9 x 4.4 cm)
frame: 21 1/2 x 25 1/4 in. (54.6 x 64.1 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Foster
Object number1995.13
Subject(s)
- animal
- dog
Collection
- 20th century American
Sub-Collection(s)
- Modernism
On View
Not on viewLabel TextAfter a trip to Paris and the South of France, where he fell under the spell of Matisse and Picasso, Dove returned to the States, developing one of the most radically abstract modes of painting of all American artists of his generation. Overtly non-representational, his use of arbitrary colors and simplified forms expressed his belief in the interpenetration of objects and environments. This whimsical painting was done after his return to Seneca County, New York to settle his family’s estate in 1933. The interlocking, flattened forms which barely suggest the canine specified by the title are typical of his lyrical sense of the essential shapes that form the totality of nature. Dove’s success as a leader of progressive art is attested by the fact that the collector and art historian Duncan Phillips had him on a retainer so as to have first dibs on any newly exhibited works.
