Dublin Core
Title
Seneca Lake
Description
This small watercolor uses a technique Dove called "extraction": abstracting from some landscape only those elements necessary to render it. Here we see a few lines of ink used to trees, clouds, and a power line; watercolor and gouache then complete the forms. Horizontal layers effectively capture the distinctive long shapes and surrounding hills of New York's Finger Lakes region.
Dove was born in Canandaigua to a wealthy family, graduating from Cornell University and expected to follow a career appropriate to that education. Instead, he worked in commercial illustration and traveled to Europe; eventually upon returning to America he became friends with photographer and gallery owner Arthur Stieglitz, who encouraged his experiments with abstraction.
Dove was born in Canandaigua to a wealthy family, graduating from Cornell University and expected to follow a career appropriate to that education. Instead, he worked in commercial illustration and traveled to Europe; eventually upon returning to America he became friends with photographer and gallery owner Arthur Stieglitz, who encouraged his experiments with abstraction.
Creator
Dove, Arthur, 1880-1946
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date
1935
Contributor
Cooper, Ken
Source
Format
jpeg, 826 KB
Type
Still image
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Watercolor, gouache, and pen painting
Physical Dimensions
5 x 7 in.