Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan wrote a song entitled “I’m in love with Arthur Dove.” Dove grew up in Geneva, New York and nearly starved to death as one of America’s first abstract painters. Alfred Stieglitz and Duncan Phillips championed his art. I love his work. I did a painting of him in my painters series. I like this quote from him, “Ideas are the only property worth having. Taxes are the penalty you pay for wanting things.”
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See this?
http://www.clarkart.edu/exhibitions/dove-okeeffe/content/exhibition.cfm
If you see the O’Keeffe abstraction show at the Whitney (next in D.C. then Santa Fe) You won’t get the Dove connection featured in this Clark show last summer. Was cool.