Originally titled “Midnight,” There Were No Flowers Tonight was painted in Laguna Beach, California, in 1929. Its morbid imagery is the product of Ivan Albright’s obsession with beauty and decay, which compelled him to represent the ravages of age on the human form with uncompromising detail.
Buffalo; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; San Francisco Musuem of Art; Art Gallery of Toronto
Arthur Garfield Dove was born in Canandaigua in the Finger Lakes region of New York on August 2, 1880, and was raised in nearby Geneva. His father, a brickyard owner and building contractor, named him after the Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates in the election that year, James Garfield and Chester Arthur.
Arthur Dove: Life and Work, With a Catalogue Raisonné, Newark, London, and Toronto
Executed in 1927, Line and Curve is the last in a group of four highly abstract, predominantly white, narrow vertical compositions whose imagery can be traced in part to Georgia O’Keeffe’s interest in Manhattan’s modern architecture. As its title indicates, Line and Curve consists of a simple juxtaposition of a vertical line running down the center of the canvas intersected by a sweeping curve that extends through the upper right quadrant of the composition.
, Tate Modern, London; Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The Western Humanities, California, London, Toronto, 1998, no. 19.13, repro.
to Philadelphia Museum of Art; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Art Gallery of Toronto
1981 Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1981 Gauguin to Moore: Primitivism in Modern Sculpture, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Minneapolis Institute of Arts; San Francisco Museum of Art; The Art Gallery of Toronto
, Turin (no. 64, as Notte gelata) 1903, Minneapolis (no. 8, as Icy Night) 1903, Toronto
Artists are keen observers of the natural world. The landscapes they create capture the progression of seasons, the changing climate, and conservation concerns.
acrylic on canvas, Patrons‘ Permanent Fund and Gift of Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto
