Artist

Arthur Dove

1880–1946 · born in Canandaigua · died in Huntington

Arthur Dove was an American painter born in Canandaigua, New York, in 1880. He is considered one of the first American artists to paint abstractly, painting nature, music and feelings, often while living on a boat or in a farmhouse on Long Island. He died in Huntington, New York, in 1946.