Holbrook's Bridge

Details

Arthur G. Dove (1880-1946)
Holbrook's Bridge
watercolor and gouache on paper
7 x 5 in. (17.8 x 12.7 cm.)
Executed in 1935.

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Max Zurier, Palm Springs, California.
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 1984.

Literature

Archives of American Art, Suzanne Mullet Smith Papers, roll 1043, frame 350.

Exhibited

Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, Mr. and Mrs. Max Zurier Collection, April 30-May 21, 1963, no. 21 (as circa 1924).
La Jolla, California, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Paintings from the Zurier Collection, May 8-June 6, 1976.
San Francisco, California, John Berggruen Gallery, The Zurier Collection, March 28-May 1, 1984, pp. 26-27, no. 11.
St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis Art Museum; Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Ebsworth Collection: American Modernism, 1911-1947, November 20, 1987-June 5, 1988, pp. 84-85, 202, no. 20, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming revision of the Arthur Dove Catalogue Raisonné, under the direction of Debra Bricker Balken.

The present work is related to Arthur Dove's oil painting Holbrook's Bridge to the Northwest (1938) in the collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York.

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