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The Hill beyond the Marsh
Google Lens entry:
Arthur Wesley Dow was a leading art theorist and teacher who encouraged artists to prize design and beauty over pure representation. While studying art in France, Dow discovered a love for landscape painting, and he brought this love back to his coastal hometown of Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he founded the Ipswich Summer School of Art. He later experimented with handicrafts and the aesthetics of Japanese printmaking - ideas he shared with his students, such as Georgia O'Keeffe and Max Weber.
Around 1900 Dow established a studio in Ipswich, Massachusetts, often teaching summer courses there. After an extended period of concentration on printmaking and teaching, in 1907 he also began to paint. This painting, painted during this period, uses the simple elements of the Ipswich landscape to create overall decorative patterns. Dow favored twilight and dawn as transitional times of day that simplified forms and harmonized colors in low-keyed luminescence.
- Artist
- Arthur Wesley Dow
- Title
- The Hill beyond the Marsh
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Place of Creation
- United States
- Object Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 26 3/8 x 36 3/8 in. (67 x 92.4 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Barbara N. and William G. Hyland
- Accession Number
- 1991.18.1