Good Breeze
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Arthur Garfield Dove
(Canandaigua, New York, 1880–Centerport, New York, 1946)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1931
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 19 11/16 x 27 9/16 in. (50 x 70 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Mari and James A. Michener, G1968.45
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaModern and Contemporary Art
Object numberG1968.45
On View
Not on viewArthur Dove lived on a boat off the coast of New York for seven years before painting "Good Breeze." His vicinity to the water emerges in the fluid forms of the composition: undulating waves of green and blue fuse land with sea, while the yellow triangle at center resembles a billowing sail. Good Breeze also captures the artist’s increasing interest in nonrepresentational painting, as the seascape dissolves into a patchwork of line and color.
