Out the Window
- Date
- 1939
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- made in
- Centerport, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- American Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 334
- Dimensions
- 15 1/4 x 21 1/4 in. (38.7 x 54 cm)
framed: 16 3/8 x 22 1/4 in. (41.6 x 56.5 cm) - Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 139:1965
NOTES
Lines of blue and yellow contained by dark concentric circles mimic the view from a porthole and recall Arthur Dove’s experience living on a houseboat. Painted when he was in poor health, the image suggests the feeling of confinement. Dove was one of the first American artists to paint entirely abstract, non-representational works.
Provenance
1946
Estate of the artist [1]
- 1965
Downtown Art Gallery, New York, NY
1965 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Downtown Gallery [2]
Notes:
[1] Entry in "Arthur Dove: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Things." New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021, p.260.
[2] Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control and Associate Members of the Board of Control of the City Art Museum, November 18, 1965
Estate of the artist [1]
- 1965
Downtown Art Gallery, New York, NY
1965 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Downtown Gallery [2]
Notes:
[1] Entry in "Arthur Dove: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Things." New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021, p.260.
[2] Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control and Associate Members of the Board of Control of the City Art Museum, November 18, 1965
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