Boat Houses
Arthur Garfield Dove, American, 1880 - 1946
1938
Watercolor over graphite on wove paper mounted on original secondary support
Overall: 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Jay R. Wolf, Class of 1951
W.976.189
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in pen and ink, lower center: Dove; machine-printed label on reverse: TITLE____ / By ARTHUR DOVE / Care of ALFRED STIEGLITZ / 509 MADISON AVENUE / NEW YORK CITY; inscribed by artist, in pen and ink, on label: Boat Houses / '38; inscribed in another hand, in graphite, on label: 38/32; stamped, in ink: SEP 21 1960 / FEB 22 1967
Course History
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
WRIT 7, Religion and Literature: Revisioning the Invisible, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Fall 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Fall 2014
WRIT 5, Writing Into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2015
WRIT 5, Writing Into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
An American Place, New York, probably 1938 or 1939.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 5-June 24, 2001.
From Copley to Dove: American Drawings and Watercolors at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat.), March 11-May 28, 1989.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
The Jay Wolf Bequest of Contemporary Art, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat.), 1977.
The Jay Wolf Bequest of Contemporary Art, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 24-August 28, 1977.
Twentieth Century Masters from the Permanent Collection, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat.), February 3-March 5, 1978.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 172, 268, ill. p. 24 fig. 20, 173, no. 55.
Provenance
The artist; consigned to An American Place, New York (not sold); with Downtown Gallery, New York; to Terry Dintenfass, Inc. (art dealer), New York; sold to Julius (Jay) Rosenthal Wolf (1929-1976), Class of 1951, New York, New York; given to present collection, 1976.
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