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Pine Tree

1931

Arthur Dove

(American, 1880-1946)

America, 20th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 90.2 x 116.8 x 5.7 cm (35 1/2 x 46 x 2 1/4 in.); Unframed: 76.4 x 101.6 cm (30 1/16 x 40 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1992.128

Location

226A American Modern

Fun Fact

Dove loved nature, preferring to live on houseboats rather than in the heart of the city.

Description

Arthur Dove’s love of nature deeply informed his work. As evident in Pine Tree, he rendered his subjects through abstracted form, rather than literal description. Here, the artist reconfigured the tree’s gnarled branches as rhythmically undulating shapes, and transformed its spiky needles into playfully jagged outlines. Most dramatically, three male pine cones, laden with pollen, appear as flame-like bursts.

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signed lower center: "dove"

Provenance

1992-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

1992

(Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1992

Patricia Baum, New York, NY, consigned to the Terry Dintenfass Gallery

1970-1992

Nathaly Baum [1914-1986], Washington, D.C., by inheritance to her daughter, Patricia Baum

1932

(An American Place, New York, NY)

Provenance Citations

American Place (Gallery). Arthur G. Dove Exhibition. New York: An American Place, 1932. <http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p16028coll4,19337>.

Tom Hinson, memo to Evan Turner, Jan. 15, 1992, in CMA curatorial file.

Citations

Jewell, Edward Alden. "Dove's New Work Shown." The New York Times, March 18, 1932. Mentioned: p. 24

"An Artist's Coming of Age: Arthur G. Dove Exhibit Shows Artistic Advance." The Springfield Sunday Union and Republican, March 20, 1932. Mentioned: p. E6

Morgan, Ann Lee. Arthur Dove: Life and Work with a Catalogue Raisonné. Newark: University of Delaware, 1984. Mentioned: p. 195

Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in The Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: p. 66

Turner, Evan. "The Year in Review for 1992." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February, 1993). Reproduced: p. 42, no. 33; Mentioned: p. 42, 66

Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. New York: Knopf, 2005. Mentioned: p. 163

McDonald, Gerry. "A Tribute." In Silver Apples of the Moon, edited by Neal Chandler. Shaker Heights, OH: Shaker Heights Public Library, 2006. Mentioned: p. 42; Reproduced: p. 43

Adams, Henry. What's American about American Art? A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. Mentioned: p. 12, 126; Reproduced: p. 126-27.

Hinson, Tom. "The Hinson Perspective." Cleveland Art 51, no. 4 (July/August, 2011) Mentioned: p. 23

Balken, Debra Bricker, William C. Agee, and Elizabeth Hutton Turner. Arthur Dove: A Retrospective. Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, 1997. Mentioned: p. 4, 29; Reproduced: cover/jacket, p. 91, no. 56

Chassey, Eric de. Made in USA : l’art américain, 1908-1947. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. Reproduced: p. 153

Exhibition history

New York, An American Place, Arthur G. Dove Exhibition (14 March-9 April 1932), see photocopies of handwritten catalogue, listed there as no. 1.

Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).

Arthur Dove: A Retrospective Exhibition. The Phillips Collection (organizer) (September 20, 1997-January 4, 1998); Whitney Museum of American Art (January 15-April 12, 1998); Addison Gallery of American Art (April 24-July 14, 1998); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (August 2-October 4, 1998).

Made in U.S.A., l'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (organizer) (October 5-December 31, 2001); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes (January 17-March 31, 2002); Musée Fabre (April 10-June 25, 2002).

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