CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/29/2018

Arthur Dove: the only American painter who is of the earth

After the Storm, Silver and Green (Vault Sky), painted circa 1923, is reproduced from Arthur Dove: A Reassessment, the gorgeous and highly anticipated new survey from Lucia | Marquand. Not only does this book feature 120 wonderful reproductions by this chronically underpublished artist alongside a major essay by Alan Pensler, but it contains an edited version of Suzanne Mullet Smith's 1943-1944 biography of the artist. Produced with the aid of Alfred Stieglitz, Mullet Smith's biography contained a catalogue raisonné of Dove's work to date, and was the only biography realized in the artist's lifetime. "Dove is the only American painter who is of the earth," Mullet Smith quotes fellow painter Georgia O'Keeffe. "You don't know what the earth is, I guess. Where I come from the earth means everything. Life depends on it. You pick it up and feel it in your hands."