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An abstract painting in brown, green and black.

The painting shows a background of brown and muted green divided in half vertically. In the foreground is a square of lighter reddish-brown on the left and dark brown on the right. The right side of the square extends out and turns back on itself in an arch. A straight white line rises from the light brown square at a slight angle to the left. A large disc is set slightly off-center to the right, it is divided vertically, the left half is light green, the right is black.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.223
People
Arthur G. Dove, American (Canandaigua, NY 1880 - 1946 Huntington, NY)
Title
Flagpole, Apple Tree, and Garden
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1943-1944
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/173527

Location

Location
Level 1, Room 1310, Modern and Contemporary Art, Surrealism
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil and wax emulsion on canvas
Dimensions
61 x 81.3 cm (24 x 32 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.c., in black paint: DOVE

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Saundra Lane in honor of William H. Lane, Harvard Class of 1937
Accession Year
2007
Object Number
2007.223
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arthur Dove: Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art (1958-1959)
  • Daniel Catton Rich, Paintings and water colors by Arthur Dove: Lent by the William H. Lane Foundation, exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum (1961)
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Carol Troyen, The Lane Collection: 20th-Century Paintings in the American Tradition, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1983), cat. 28, ill.
  • Ann Lee Morgan, Arthur Dove: Life and Work (1984), pp. 305-306, ill.
  • Debra Bricker Balken, William C. Agee, and Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Arthur Dove: A Retrospective, exh. cat., ed. M.E.D. Laing (1997), p. 167, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Re-View: European and American Art Since 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/03/2011 - 06/01/2013
  • 32Q: 1310 Surrealism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 04/14/2025; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/14/2015 - 01/01/2050

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