M. FORD CREECH ANTIQUES & FINE ARTS
ARTHUR WESLEY DOW American, 1857 – 1922, (NY)
"UNTITLED (MEADOW AT SUNSET) "
Oil on board, Unsigned
Provenance: David Rago; purchased by the previous owner from a dealer for Dow
Bearing a label from Hirsch & Associates, Fine Art Services, NYC
Museums: (17) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (see bio for complete listing)
Listed: 57 books, including Enyeart, Harmony of Reflected Light, The Photographs of Arthur Wesley Dow;
Green/Meyer, Arthur Wesley Dow: His Art and His Influence; Moffatt, Arthur Wesley Dow 1857-1922
Periodicals: 17 (American Art Review, American Artist, Southwest Art, Art & Auction, Art in America, Art of the West, American Art Quarterly)
Image size: 11 1/2" x 17"
Price: Please Inquire
#5122
(Board verso)
Birth place: Ipswich, MA Death place: New York, NY Addresses: NYC / Ipswich, MA
Profession: Landscape painter, etcher, teacher, writer, lecturer
Studied: Boston, c.1880; Académie Julian, Paris, with Boulanger, Lefebvre, Doucet, Delance, 1884-89 (Fehrer cites his attendance dates as 1880-88); also in Pont Aven with Paul Gaugin
Exhibited: Paris Expo, 1886, 1889 (hon. men.); Paris Salon, 1887,1889; Boston Arts Club, 1889-1898; NAD, 1890-1900; Pan-American Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (medal, prize); Boston Mechanics Assoc. (medal); Montross Gallery, NYC; Corcoran Gallery, 1910; Pan-Pacific Expo, San Francisco, 1915 (medal); Society of Independent Artists, 1917-18; Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1929 (retrospective); Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 1999 ("Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts & Crafts").
Member: Art Institute of Graphic Arts; California Printmakers; Society Western Artists
Work: Bostom Museum of Fine Arts; National Museum of American Art; Teachers College, Columbia University; Ipswich Public Library
Comments: Perhaps the single most influential American teacher of his time, Dow was integral to the Arts and Crafts Movement and to the introduction and spreading of Japonisme in the United States. He came from a Puritan background and had a classical education. After studying in France in the 1880s, he returned to Boston and worked as an assistant curator at the Museum of Fine Arts. Here he was introduced to Japanese art by the Oriental scholar and curator, Ernest Fenolossa. Dow began making color woodblock prints by the early 1890s, and in 1895 had the first ever exhibition (at the BMFA) of color woodblock prints by a Western artist. From 1895-1904, he taught at the Pratt Institute. Dow's most important breakthrough came with his integration of Eastern and Western art, and his development of corresponding new theories on composition which he published in 1899 as Composition. This book proved highly influential on the next two generations of American artists. He continued teaching at Columbia Univ. (1904-22) and his popular Ipswich Summer Art School (c.1900-07) attracted serious students from all over the country. Georgia O'Keeffe and Max Weber were among the many students who acknowledged his profound influence. Although he is best known for his Ipswich scenes, he also visited the West and produced paintings of the Grand Canyon (exhibited 1913). He was also a photographer. In addition to Composition, he was author of Theory and Practice of Teaching Art, Constructive Art Teaching, By Salt Marshes, Ipswich Prints and Prints from Wood Blocks.
Sources: WW21; Frederick C. Moffatt, Arthur Wesley Dow (exh. cat., NCFA, 1977); Baigell, Dictionary; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 339
This biography is drawn from the "Who Was Who in American Art" , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.
Museums:
Books: (57) including all major references
Enyeart, Harmony of Reflected Light, The Photographs of Arthur Wesley Dow Green/Meyer, Arthur Wesley Dow: His Art and His Influence Moffatt, Arthur Wesley Dow 1857-1922
Periodicals: (17), through 2006 American Art Review, 2006 April American Impressionism: Variations on a Theme American Art Review, June 2004, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum American Artist, May 2004, A Permanent Record of What Has Been Art & Auction, May2001, Date BookArt in America, November 2000, Arthur Wesley Dow: Democratizing Art Art & Antiques, May2000, A New Aesthetic Southwest Art, March 2000, Arthur Wesley Dow Art of the West, February2000, What's News American Arts Quarterly, August 2003, Japanism in America Southwest Art, February 2003, Recent Books American Art Review, June 2001, The Photographs of Arthur W Dow
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