Willows

Arthur Dove · 1940

You're looking at Willows — a painting by the American artist Arthur Dove, nineteen forty. The piece is oil on canvas, about 64 by 89 centimeters. In the picture, look for the house.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 25 x 35" (63.5 x 88.9 cm) · Credit Gift of Duncan Phillips

Hanging beside it in Gallery 509: Abstraction Blue, Cypress Root and Succulents, Point Lobos

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: House by the Railroad, Shipyard-workers' housing--built during the Second World War--being moved from San Pedro to South-Central Los Angeles from the series Fish Story, Bucks County Barn, Walking House, The Shape of Things

More by Arthur Dove here: Portrait of Alfred Stieglitz