Arthur
Garfield Dove was born in upstate New York in 1880, when
the United States was still largely rural and provincial.
Dove's formative years were spent living the simple life,
close to nature, and we see that influence in his work.
Dove enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca to study
law, but by the time he completed his A.B. degree he had
decided to become an illustrator, drawing for McClure's,
Century, Collier's, St. Nicholas, and The Illustrated
Sporting News .
In 1904 he married Florence Dorsey; in 1908 they went
to Paris where he gained exposure to the European art
world; they returned to America in 1909. Dove worked in
Westport, Connecticut to support his wife and son, but
soon after his father died.
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