Arthur Dove

Arthur Garfield Dove was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter. Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinations, to produce his abstractions and his abstract landscapes. Me and the Moon from 1937 is a good example of an Arthur Dove abstract landscape and has been referred to as one of the culminating works of his career. Dove made a series of experimental collages in the 1920s. He also experimented with techniques, combining paints like hand mixed oil or tempera over a wax emulsion as exemplified in Dove's 1938 painting Tanks, in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

2 August 1880

Born on the same birth day (2 August): August 2 • Augustus Rowe • Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau • Dragan Vukmir • Frank Biela • Herbert M. Allison • James Howe • Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux • John Radecki • Mina Rees • Reyes Estévez

Born in the same month (August 1880): Alexander Grin • Christy Mathewson • Earle Page • George Herriman • Gertrude Rush • Gorch Fock (author) • Guillaume Apollinaire • Hans Moser (actor) • Radclyffe Hall • Robert L. Thornton • Ruth Sawyer • Wilhelmina of the Netherlands