Arthur Garfield Dove American, 1880-1946 Canandaigua Outlet, 1934 Dated 34 and inscribed as titled in the artist's hand on a label affixed to the reverse Watercolor and crayon on paper 10 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches; image 8 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist The Downtown Gallery, New York Nelson Rockefeller (acquired December 26, 1954) Berent Friele, Bronxville, New York, by gift Thence by descent to the present owner Exhibited: New York City, An American Place, 1935 (possibly) Having left his native Geneva, New York, many years before, Arthur Dove returned to his hometown in July, 1933, to help settle his late mother's estate. Obligated by financial considerations to remain there for five years, Dove divided his time among farming, negotiating sales of parcels of property, and painting, as well as making repairs to the farmhouses and commercial buildings in which he and his wife, Helen Torr lived. His myriad responsibilities limited his productivity as a painter however, and his April, 1935 exhibition at An American Place was retrospective, featuring only twelve oils executed the previous year. Also included were twenty-seven watercolors, not identified by title. It is likely that the present work was one of these, since it bears the label that Dove characteristically employed for consignments to An American Place. In the catalogue essay, (a reprint from an article in The Springfield Sunday Union & Republican dated April 22, 1934), Elizabeth McCausland refers to Dove's Geneva paintings as "abstract conceptions, transcripts or remembrances of experience translated into designs which somewhat resemble the natural objects from which they are taken but which have taken on also, a higher order and organization than the accidents of Nature permit." She compared Dove's oils to his watercolors, finding that they afforded "a deeper knowledge into the intricacies of the creative process, as well as a useful blueprint by which the structure of the abstract design [in the oils] can be more easily appreciated...In the water colors, too, one gets very close to an essential part of Dove's nature, his gentleness and tenderness, his lyric love of nature." Dove often ventured beyond the immediate environs of Geneva in search of inspiration. The Canandaigua Outlet at Oaks Corners was a favorite destination. Depicting the site several times over his five-year sojourn, the artist clearly relished painting the amorphous eddies of water and tangled branches, as seen in Canandaigua Outlet, here garbed in vibrant autumnal hues. The present work may represent Dove's earliest watercolor depicting the Outlet. A copy of the original bill of sale to Nelson Rockefeller accompanies this lot. C
Slight fading, matburn along edges. Taped at upper edge and at sides to mat; with some staining on verso from acidic mat.
Arthur Garfield Dove American, 1880-1946 Canandaigua Outlet, 1934 Dated 34 and inscribed as titled in the artist's hand on a label affixed to the reverse Watercolor and crayon on paper 10 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches; image 8 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist The Downtown Gallery, New York Nelson Rockefeller (acquired December 26, 1954) Berent Friele, Bronxville, New York, by gift Thence by descent to the present owner Exhibited: New York City, An American Place, 1935 (possibly) Having left his native Geneva, New York, many years before, Arthur Dove returned to his hometown in July, 1933, to help settle his late mother's estate. Obligated by financial considerations to remain there for five years, Dove divided his time among farming, negotiating sales of parcels of property, and painting, as well as making repairs to the farmhouses and commercial buildings in which he and his wife, Helen Torr lived. His myriad responsibilities limited his productivity as a painter however, and his April, 1935 exhibition at An American Place was retrospective, featuring only twelve oils executed the previous year. Also included were twenty-seven watercolors, not identified by title. It is likely that the present work was one of these, since it bears the label that Dove characteristically employed for consignments to An American Place. In the catalogue essay, (a reprint from an article in The Springfield Sunday Union & Republican dated April 22, 1934), Elizabeth McCausland refers to Dove's Geneva paintings as "abstract conceptions, transcripts or remembrances of experience translated into designs which somewhat resemble the natural objects from which they are taken but which have taken on also, a higher order and organization than the accidents of Nature permit." She compared Dove's oils to his watercolors, finding that they afforded "a deeper knowledge into the intricacies of the creative process, as well as a useful blueprint by which the structure of the abstract design [in the oils] can be more easily appreciated...In the water colors, too, one gets very close to an essential part of Dove's nature, his gentleness and tenderness, his lyric love of nature." Dove often ventured beyond the immediate environs of Geneva in search of inspiration. The Canandaigua Outlet at Oaks Corners was a favorite destination. Depicting the site several times over his five-year sojourn, the artist clearly relished painting the amorphous eddies of water and tangled branches, as seen in Canandaigua Outlet, here garbed in vibrant autumnal hues. The present work may represent Dove's earliest watercolor depicting the Outlet. A copy of the original bill of sale to Nelson Rockefeller accompanies this lot. C
Slight fading, matburn along edges. Taped at upper edge and at sides to mat; with some staining on verso from acidic mat.
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