Hand Sewing Machine
Expressionism
1927
38.0 x 50.0 cm
Hand Sewing Machine is one of twenty-five mixed-media works that Dove created during the 1920s. The machine is painted on a sheet of aluminum, whose dull silver surface remains visible in certain areas. The fabric being stitched is an actual piece of linen. A hand-operated sewing machine such as this one would have already been considered old-fashioned by the 1920s. However, Dove and his wife owned one and used it in their daily lives.
Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 – 1946)
"meta_description": "Arthur Garfield Dove was een Amerikaanse pionier van abstracte kunst, bekend om zijn expressieve landschappen en vroege experimenten met niet-representatieve vormen, die modernisme in de VS vormden. Zijn werk is gekenmerkt door kleurrijke composities en een unieke visuele taal."
Over dit kunstwerk
- Titel: Hand Sewing Machine
- Kunstenaar: Arthur Garfield Dove
- Jaar: 1927
- Oorspronkelijke afmetingen: 38.0 x 50.0 cm
- Formaat: Landscape
- Auteursrechtelijke status: Publiek domein
- Creatieve periode: 1920s Art Deco
- Kleurenpalet: Earthy
- Hoofdkleur: Phthalo Green
- Trefwoorden: vintage sewing machine , melancholy art , mixed media artwork