Monkey Fur

Arts of the Americas

1926

Arthur Dove (American, 1880–1946)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Arthur Dove
Title: Monkey Fur
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1926
Medium: Corroded metal, monkey fur, tin foil, and cloth on metal
Inscriptions: Signed and dated verso, upper center: "Dove/1926"
Dimensions: 43.2 × 30.5 cm (17 × 12 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.534

Ann Lee Morgan, “Arthur Dove: Life and Work with Catalogue Raisonne” (Associated University Press, 1984).
Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth–Century Painting and Sculpture, selected by James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p.54, ill.
Judith A. Barter et al., American Modernism at the Art Institute of CHicago, From World War I to 1955, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 55.

Museum of Modern Art, Alfred Stieglitz: His Collection, June 10–Aug. 31, 1947, cat. 27.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Modern Series: Shatter Rupture Break, Feb. 15–May 3, 2015, no cat.

23 Arthur Dove, Monkey Fur, 1926

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