#4 Creek

c. 1923

Arthur Dove

Associated Names
Arthur Dove

Artist, American, 1880 - 1946

The image shows dark, sweeping, curved lines against a light background. A large black arc is in the center, with rounded protruding shapes beneath it. The play of shadows and highlights enhances the depth and texture of the image, creating an abstract composition.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    charcoal and graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 54.29 × 45.24 cm (21 3/8 × 17 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.136.206

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Downtown Gallery, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1961

  • Arthur Dove: Major Drawings, 1911-1920, Downtown Gallery, New York, 1961

  • [Christmas exhibition], Downtown Gallery, New York, 1961

1975

  • Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture in America, 1910-1925, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, 1975

1977

  • Changing Prospects: Views of America on Paper from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (Tour of Canada), 1977-1979

1982

  • Modernist Watercolors, Prints and Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982, no. 10

1983

  • American Master Drawings from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1983

1989

  • Over Here: Modernism, the First Exile, 1914-1919, David Winton Bell Gallery, Howard University, Washington, DC, 1989, p. 142, repro

1998

  • Arthur Dove: A Retrospective Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, 1998, p. 52, no. 19, repro

2009

  • Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence, Clark Art Institute, WIlliamstown, Massachusetts, 2009, p. 59, pl. 9, repro

2015

  • Focus on the Corcoran: Works on Paper, 1860-1990, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2015

Bibliography

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 172, no. 1170.

2016

  • National Gallery of Art. Highlights from the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2016: 288, repro.

Inscriptions

upper left verso in graphite: "#1 Standing in Stream"

Wikidata ID

Q64536573

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