Object Information
Arthur Dove
American, 1880-1946
Silver Sun, 1929
Oil and metallic paint on canvas
55.3 x 74.9 cm (21 3/4 x 29 1/2 in.)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.531
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York, S. M. Kootz Gallery, Modern American Painters, 1930, pl. 16.
New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Pioneers of Modern Art in America, Apr. 9-May 19, 1946, cat. 40.
San Francisco Museum of Art, Arthur Dove, Nov. 20, 1974-Jan. 5, 1975, p. 41 (ill.); traveled to Buffalo, Albright-Knox Gallery, Jan. 27-Mar. 2; St. Louis Art Museum, Apr. 3-May 27; Art Institute of Chicago, July 12-Aug. 31; Des Moines Art Center, Sept. 22-Nov. 2; New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nov. 27, 1975-Jan. 18, 1976.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Personal Intensity: Artists in Spite of the Mainsteam, Oct. 10-Dec. 22, 1991.
Tokyo, ASAHI Shimbun, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago; traveled to Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Apr. 20-May 29, 1994, Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10-July 24, 1994, Yokohama Museum of Art Aug. 6-Sept. 25, 1994.
Washington D.C., Phillips Collection, Arthur Dove: A Retrospective, Sept. 20, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998; traveled to New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jan. 15-Apr. 12, 1998, Andover, Mass., Addison Gallery of American Art, Apr. 25-July 12, 1998, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Aug. 2-Oct. 4, 1998.
Publication History
Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 129.
“Arthur Dove Exhibition,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago, 69 (July/Aug. 1975), ill.
Ownership History
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, New York; bequeathed through Georgia O'Keeffe to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.