art.wikisort.org - Artist

Arthur Wesley Dow (1857 – December 13, 1922)[1][2] was an American painter, printmaker, photographer and an arts educator.

Arthur Wesley Dow
Born	1857 (1857) Ipswich, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	December 13, 1922 (aged 65) New York
Nationality	American
Education	Académie Julian, Paris
Spouse	Eleanor Pearson (1893–1922; death)

Early life

Arthur Wesley Dow, born in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1857.[3] Dow received his first art training in 1880 from Anna K. Freeland of Worcester, Massachusetts. The following year, Dow continued his studies in Boston[1] with James M. Stone, a former student of Frank Duveneck and Gustave Bouguereau. In 1884, he went to Paris for his early art education, studying at the Académie Julian,[3] under the supervision of the academic artists Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.

Career

In 1893, Dow was appointed assistant curator of the Japanese collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston under Ernest Fenellosa. Fenellosa introduced Dow to ukiyo‑e, the woodblock prints of Japan, which greatly influenced his later works.[3]

He accepted commissions for posters and other commercial work. In 1895, he designed the poster to advertise the Journal of Modern Art and in 1896, he designed the poster for an exhibition of Japanese prints.[5]

Over the course of his career, Dow taught art at a few major American arts training institutions, beginning with the Pratt Institute from 1896 to 1903. He also taught at the New York Art Students League, from 1898 to 1903.[6] In 1900, Dow founded and served as the director of the Ipswich Summer School of Art in Ipswich, Massachusetts. From 1904 to 1922, he was a professor of fine arts at Columbia University Teachers College.[6]

Death and legacy

Dow died on December 13, 1922, in his home in New York City.[1] He was interred in the Old North Burying Ground in Ipswich, Massachusetts.[7] He was survived by his wife Eleanor Pearson, whom he married in 1893.[1]

Influence on others

Dow taught many of America's leading artists and craftspeople, including: Georgia O'Keeffe,[8] Shirley Williamson,[9] Charles Sheeler, Charles J. Martin^{[citation needed]}, two of the Overbeck Sisters, Delle Miller,[10] Charles Burchfield,[11] Isabelle Percy West[12] and Walter King Stone.[13] One of his pupils, the educator and printmaker Pedro Joseph de Lemos, adapted and widely disseminated Dow's theories in dozens of theoretical and instructional publications (1918–1950) for art schools.[14]

Dow also had influence at the Byrdcliffe Colony.

Collections

His work is represented in public museum collections, including Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas;[15] the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City;[16] Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York City;[17] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; the San Diego Museum of Art; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California;[18] the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.;[3] Columbia University, New York; Ipswich Historical Society;[19] Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement; and many other public and private collection.

Ideas on teaching art

His ideas were quite revolutionary for the period; Dow taught that rather than copying nature, individuals should create art through elements of the composition, such as line, mass and color.[20] He wanted leaders of the public to see art is a living force for all in everyday life, not as a sort of traditional ornament for the few. Dow suggested that the American lack of interest in art would improve if art was presented as a means of self-expression. He wanted people to be able to include personal experience in creating art.[21]

His ideas on art were published in his 1899 book Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers. The following extracts are from the prefatory chapter "Beginnings" to the second edition of this book (1912):

Composition ... expresses the idea upon which the method here presented is founded - the "putting together" of lines, masses and colors to make a harmony. ... Composition, building up of harmony, is the fundamental process in all the fine arts. ... A natural method is of exercises in progressive order, first building up very simple harmonies ... Such a method of study includes all kinds of drawing, design and painting. It offers a means of training for the creative artist, the teacher or one who studies art for the sake of culture.

Bibliography

Works by Dow

• Arthur Wesley Dow (1912). Theory and Practice of Teaching Art (2nd ed.). Teachers College, Columbia University.
• Arthur Wesley Dow (January 1913). "Constructive Art-Teaching". Teachers College Bulletin. Columbia University.
• Arthur Wesley Dow (September 1918), "A Course in Fine Art", Bulletin of the College Art Association of America, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 4 no, hdl:2027/mdp.39015017542740 – via HathiTrust
• Arthur Wesley Dow (1920). Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers. Doubleday, Page & Company.

References

External links

• Works by Arthur Wesley Dow at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Arthur Wesley Dow at Internet Archive
• Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
• Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts & Crafts, March 10 through June 18, 2000. Dow Papers Online at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art Arthur Wesley
• Marsh Creek an example of Dow's art
• Online exhibition of Arthur Dow's art
• Two Red Roses Foundation

На других языках

---

[de] Arthur Wesley Dow

Arthur Wesley Dow (* 6. April 1857 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; † 13. Dezember 1922 in New York City) war ein US-amerikanischer Landschaftsmaler, Drucker, Fotograf und ein einflussreicher Kunsttheoretiker und -lehrer.

---

- [en] Arthur Wesley Dow

---

[es] Arthur Wesley Dow

Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-13 de diciembre de 1922) [1] [2] fue un pintor, grabador, fotógrafo y formador artístico estadounidense.

---

[fr] Arthur Wesley Dow

Arthur Wesley Dow, né le 6 avril 1857, à Ipswich, Massachusetts, États-Unis, et mort le 13 décembre 1922, à New York, est un peintre, graveur, photographe et éducateur américain connu pour ses enseignements fondés sur les principes de l'art japonais et dont l’influence s’est fait ressentir sur plusieurs générations d’artistes, ainsi que pour ses contributions artistiques et intellectuelles au mouvement Arts & Crafts.

---

[it] Arthur Wesley Dow

Arthur Wesley Dow (Ipswich, 6 aprile 1857 – New York, 13 dicembre 1922) è stato un pittore, incisore e fotografo statunitense, famoso per i suoi insegnamenti sulla composizione nell'arte. La sua influenza come docente segnò diverse generazioni di artisti. Dow è noto anche per i suoi contributi artistici e culturali nel movimento Arts & Crafts.

---

---