id: 156294 accession number: 1992.128 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.128 updated: 2023-04-19 11:40:20.548000 Pine Tree, 1931. Arthur Dove (American, 1880–1946). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1992.128 title: Pine Tree title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1931 creation date earliest: 1931 creation date latest: 1931 current location: 226A American Modern creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Arthur Dove (American, 1880–1946) - artist --- measurements: 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower center: "dove" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Selected Acquisitions opening date: 1993-02-09T05:00:00 Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993). title: Arthur Dove: A Retrospective Exhibition opening date: 1997-09-20T00:00:00 Arthur Dove: A Retrospective Exhibition. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (organizer) (September 20, 1997-January 4, 1998); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (January 15-April 12, 1998); Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (April 24-July 14, 1998); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (August 2-October 4, 1998). title: Made in U.S.A., l'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME] opening date: 2001-10-05T00:00:00 Made in U.S.A., l'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France (organizer) (October 5-December 31, 2001); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France (January 17-March 31, 2002); Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (April 10-June 25, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * New York, An American Place, Arthur G. Dove Exhibition (14 March-9 April 1932), see photocopies of handwritten catalogue, listed there as no. 1. --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1992- footnotes: citations: (Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1992 footnotes: citations: Patricia Baum, New York, NY, consigned to the Terry Dintenfass Gallery date: 1992 footnotes: citations: Nathaly Baum [1914-1986], Washington, D.C., by inheritance to her daughter, Patricia Baum date: 1970-1992 footnotes: citations: (An American Place, New York, NY) date: 1932 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Dove loved nature, preferring to live on houseboats rather than in the heart of the city. digital 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. wall description: Arthur Dove’s life-long love of nature deeply informed his work. As evident in Pine Tree, he sought to render 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 --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: American Place (Gallery). Arthur G. Dove Exhibition. New York: An American Place, 1932. <http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p16028coll4,19337>. page number: url: Balken, Deborah Bricker. Arthur Dove: A Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings and Things. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021. page number: Mentioned P. 176 and 331. Illustrated P. 176. url: Jewell, Edward Alden. "Dove's New Work Shown." The New York Times, March 18, 1932. page number: Mentioned: p. 24 url: "An Artist's Coming of Age: Arthur G. Dove Exhibit Shows Artistic Advance." The Springfield Sunday Union and Republican, March 20, 1932. page number: Mentioned: p. E6 url: Morgan, Ann Lee. Arthur Dove: Life and Work with a Catalogue Raisonné. Newark: University of Delaware, 1984. page number: Mentioned: p. 195 url: Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in The Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 66 url: Turner, Evan. "The Year in Review for 1992." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2(February, 1993). page number: Reproduced: p. 42, no. 33; Mentioned: p. 42, 66 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388 "1993 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (1994): 143-218. page number: Mentioned: p. 155 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457 Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. New York: Knopf, 2005. page number: Mentioned: p. 163 url: McDonald, Gerry. "A Tribute." In Silver Apples of the Moon, edited by Neal Chandler. Shaker Heights, OH: Shaker Heights Public Library, 2006. page number: Mentioned: p. 42; Reproduced: p. 43 url: Adams, Henry. What's American about American Art? A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. page number: Mentioned: p. 12, 126; Reproduced: p. 126-27. url: Hinson, Tom. "The Hinson Perspective." Cleveland Art 51, no. 4 (July/August, 2011) page number: Mentioned: p. 23 url: Balken, Debra Bricker, William C. Agee, and Elizabeth Hutton Turner. Arthur Dove: A Retrospective. Andover, MA: Addison Gallery of American Art, 1997. page number: Mentioned: p. 4, 29; Reproduced: cover/jacket, p. 91, no. 56 url: Chassey, Eric de. Made in USA : l’art américain, 1908-1947. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. page number: Reproduced: p. 153 url: --- IMAGES