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    Duncan Phillips and Arthur G. Dove

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    In five pages Duncan Phillips and Arthur G. Dove are examined in terms of their patronizing and artistic relationship and how dealer Alfred Stieglitz was instrumental in this relationship. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    become one of the pioneers of modern painting in America as well as one of the first abstract painters anywhere. Born in Canandaigua, NY, from his boyhood Dove had been  interested in art and even took lessons from a local artist" (Southgate, 2000; p. 2973). He actually began studying law in college in an attempt to please his father. Doves  father felt that painting was not a suitable career. "Dove also enrolled at the school of mechanical engineering, where he continued his art studies. When he graduated in 1903, he  went to New York City, where he worked as an illustrator, contributing to such national magazines as Harpers, Scribners, Century, and Colliers, among others" (Southgate, 2000; p. 2973).  In 1908 dove made the decision to paint full time and went to France with his new wife, Florence. "The work of Cezanne and Matisse opened Doves eyes to  modern painting; his own work was forever changed. Even more decisive to his career was his friendship with Alfred Maurer, an expatriate American working in the Fauvist style" (Southgate, 2000;  p. 2973). It was Maurer who would introduce him to Alfred Stieglitz, who would "became a life-long enthusiast and began exhibiting Doves work regularly at his famed 291 gallery in  New York City....Stieglitz considered Dove, along with Georgia OKeeffe and John Mann, the most important of the new American modernists" (Southgate, 2000; p. 2973). And, it was through Stieglitz that  Dove met Duncan Phillips who was to be his patron. In the following paper we examine the relationship between Dove and Phillips, with Stieglitz as their go-between. Dove,  Phillips, and Stieglitz Doves paintings were not seen by the general population as being easily understandable or even desirable. However, with the support of Stieglitz he continued with his work 

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