Jun 14, 2018 - Sale 2482

Sale 2482 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ARTHUR WESLEY DOW
Landscape.

Oil on board circa 1900-10. 266x227 mm; 10 1/2x8 7/8 inches. Initialed "AWD" in pencil, lower left verso.

Ex-collection Columbia University Teachers College, New York; J. Mathieson Fine Art, New York; private collection, New York.

Dow (1857-1922) taught at several major New York arts institutions throughout his career, starting with the Pratt Institute from 1896-1903, the Arts Students League from 1898-1903, and settling at Columbia University Teachers College from 1904-22. Dow's teaching stressed that rather than copying nature, art should be created by elements like color and mass. The current work is likely an academic study for his students espousing his artistic ideas.