The Brothers
Maker and role
Artist: Arthur Dove, American, 1880-1946
Year
1942
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Media/materials
Tempera and wax emulsion on canvas
Measurements
20 x 28in (50.8 x 71.1cm)
Credit line
Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin through the Friends of the McNay
Accession number
1962.3
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Department
Location
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Towards the end of his life, Dove and his wife, Helen "Reds" Torr, lived on the North Shore of Long Island, New York, in a cottage that looked across Mill Pond at the twin-peaks of buildings occupied by the Franciscan brothers. From 1939 to 1942, Dove did ten watercolor sketches of these buildings, which evolved to two free-floating diamonds with minimal reference to the architecture. The diamonds document Dove's move toward "pure painting," equating "purity" with release from representation. On August 20, 1942, two days before he did his last watercolor, he wrote: "Work at point where abstraction and reality meet."
Copyright
© The Estate of Arthur G. Dove, courtesy Terry Dintenfass, Inc.
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