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Storm Clouds

Arthur Dove American
1935
Not on view
As its title suggests, this work portrays a stormy landscape, but one dramatically abstracted into a series of arched and rolling bands of color surrounding a large eyelike shape. Dove’s colors are the muted shades of earth and overcast sky, with the silvery, metallic sheen of the artist-made frame echoing and enhancing the grays of the composition. Like many avant-garde artists, Dove experimented with abstraction as a way to pursue an inner vision: he simplified his subjects to their most basic, organic forms, expressing a spiritual force beyond their tangible reality.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Storm Clouds
  • Artist: Arthur Dove (American, Canandaigua, New York 1880–1946 Huntington, New York)
  • Date: 1935
  • Medium: Wax emulsion on canvas in artist-made frame
  • Dimensions: 15 × 21 1/8 in. (38.1 × 53.7 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006
  • Object Number: 2006.32.14
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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