Arthur Dove: Watercolors and Pastels

by Melanie Kirschner and Arthur Garfield Dove

Book Overview

The first book to focus exclusively on the luminous watercolors and pastels of Arthur Dove (1880-1946), this volume explores the contributions of these mediums to the development of Dove's distinctive images of the American landscape. Dove's landmark pastel series of 1911-12, "The Ten Commandments," represents American modernism's first breakthrough into abstraction. His subsequent pastels of the 1910s and 1920s provided him with the stylistic innovations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807614475
• ISBN13: 9780807614471
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.3"