Arthur Garfield Dove was an American artist. He was one of America's first abstract painters. Dove was born to a wealthy family in Canandaigua, New York. As a child he was befriended by a neighbor named Newton Weatherby. Weatherby was a naturalist who helped form Dove’s appreciation of nature. He was also an amateur painter who gave Dove pieces of leftover canvas to work with. At college he was chosen to illustrate the Cornell University yearbook. Wikipedia
Born in Canandaigua, upstate New York, Arthur Dove was among the first twentieth-century American artists to produce purely abstract, or non-objective, paintingsa practice he continued to varying degrees throughout his career. www.hollistaggart.com/artists/dove.htm
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