Red Tree and Sun

Artist Arthur Dove (1880 - 1946)

Date1929

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions29 × 21 1/2 in. (73.7 × 54.6 cm)
Framed: 36 1/8 in. × 28 1/4 in. × 3 in.

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineAlfred Stieglitz Collection, Co-owned by Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Accession number ASC.2012.57

On View

Not on view

Collections

Alfred Stieglitz Collection

Provenance(Intimate Gallery, New York, NY); to Alfred Stieglitz, New York, NY; by bequest to Georgia O’Keeffe (his wife), New York, NY, 1946; to Fisk University, Nashville, TN, 1949; to Fisk University, Nashville, TN, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, as co-owners, 2012
Inscribedu.l., verso, in black ink: #20 - Dove / RED TREE + SUN / OIL ON CANVAS, 1929
u.r., verso, in black ink: Fragile - Do not / remove plexiglas -
u.r., verso, in pencil: 1949.11.4e
Markingsu.c., verso, stamped: FRAMED UNDER / U.F. PLEXIGLAS / DO NOT TAPE