Silver Tanks and Moon
Arthur Garfield Dove, American, 1880 - 1946
Date:
1930Medium:
Oil and metallic paint on canvasDimensions:
28 3/16 × 18 1/16 inches (71.6 × 45.9 cm)Curatorial Department:
American ArtObject Location:
1949-18-3Credit Line:
The Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
1930Medium:
Oil and metallic paint on canvasDimensions:
28 3/16 × 18 1/16 inches (71.6 × 45.9 cm)Curatorial Department:
American ArtObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1949-18-3Credit Line:
The Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Label:
One of the first abstract painters in America, Arthur Dove—together with his close friend Georgia O’Keeffe—belonged to a group of artists associated with Alfred Stieglitz, a pioneering photographer and ardent supporter of American modernism. Dove’s work, rooted in nineteenth-century romantic idealism, explored the spirituality of nature as a counterweight to the materialistic culture of the industrial age. In this solemn painting silvery industrial tanks soar toward the moon like mysterious totems of a pantheistic faith. Dove would have agreed with his colleague Paul Strand that “spiritual control over the machine” was a principal goal of art.
One of the first abstract painters in America, Arthur Dove—together with his close friend Georgia O’Keeffe—belonged to a group of artists associated with Alfred Stieglitz, a pioneering photographer and ardent supporter of American modernism. Dove’s work, rooted in nineteenth-century romantic idealism, explored the spirituality of nature as a counterweight to the materialistic culture of the industrial age. In this solemn painting silvery industrial tanks soar toward the moon like mysterious totems of a pantheistic faith. Dove would have agreed with his colleague Paul Strand that “spiritual control over the machine” was a principal goal of art.
