Morning Green

1941

American, 1880-1946

One of the first American artists to practice abstraction, Dove once wrote himself a note, “Work at a point where abstraction and reality meet.” This is the essence of many of his paintings, in which a recognizable motif is flattened and simplified into colored shapes. He also often made his own frames; here, he signed the frame as well as the painting.

Oil and encaustic on canvas

20 1/4 x 28 in. (51.4 x 71.1 cm), stretcher bars

27 3/4 x 35 3/4 in. (70.5 x 90.8 cm), frame size

Gift of the Estate of Saul and Helen Schluger

98.79

Photo: Mark Woods

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistoryWashington, D.C., The Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Twentieth Century Painting from Collections in the State of Washington, Dec. 8, 1966 - Jan. 8, 1967.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, International Abstraction: Making Painting Real, May 2, 2003 - Feb. 29, 2004.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modern in America, July 8, 2004 - Feb 27, 2005.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, From New York to Seattle: Case Studies in American Abstraction and Realism, Jan. 15, 2020 - June 5, 2022.

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