The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the first
artist to have produced an abstract painting, has always occupied a
central place in writings on early American modernism. This book
accompanies the first major exhibition on Dove since 1974. The
exhibition, organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and The
Phillips Collection, covers the period from 1908, the year after Dove
took up painting, through 1946, the year of his death. It is comprised
of approximately eighty paintings, collages, pastels, and charcoal
drawings.