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Arthur Dove

1880 - 1946

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Arthur Garfield Dove (August 2, 1880 – November 23, 1946) was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter. Dove used a wide range of media, sometimes in unconventional combinations, to produce his abstractions and his abstract landscapes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Dove has received more than 171,838 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Arthur Dove is the 1,870th most popular painter (down from 1,352nd in 2019), the 8,278th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,106th in 2019) and the 113th most popular American Painter.

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  • 45.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Arthur Dove ranks 1,870 out of 2,023. Before him are Thomas Pollock Anshutz, William Dobson, Ferdinand Bauer, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Charles R. Knight, and Carmen Herrera. After him are Allen Jones, Vladimír Vašíček, Christen Dalsgaard, Karl Schorn, Ben Nicholson, and David Cox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Arthur Dove ranks 194. Before him are Enrique Olaya Herrera, Rudolf Cvetko, Paul Castanet, Julio C. Tello, Albert Champoudry, and Albert W. Hull. After him are Lev Shcherba, Pandurang Vaman Kane, Tom Taylor, Marcel Van Crombrugge, Frances Perkins, and Jean Alexandre Barré. Among people deceased in 1946, Arthur Dove ranks 203. Before him are Mary Alden, Walter Johnson, Ferdinand Boberg, León Cortés Castro, Hendrik Adamson, and Slim Summerville. After him are Boris Lisunov, Mamie Smith, Edwin Mills, Vincent Youmans, Ivan Moskvin, and James Cecil Parke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Arthur Dove ranks 8,278 out of 20,380. Before him are Brad Renfro (1982), Gregory Chaitin (1947), James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841), Harlow Curtice (1893), John David Washington (1984), and Mark Eaton (1957). After him are Jessica Simpson (1980), Arthur Wightman (1922), Joe Alaskey (1952), Stanley A. McChrystal (1954), Terry McDermott (1940), and Kenneth Burke (1897).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Arthur Dove ranks 113. Before him are Jim Dine (1935), Edward Hicks (1780), Edward Ruscha (1937), Edward Henry Potthast (1857), Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851), and Charles R. Knight (1874). After him are Maxfield Parrish (1870), William Stanley Haseltine (1835), Frank Weston Benson (1862), R. B. Kitaj (1932), Willard Metcalf (1858), and Milt Kahl (1909).

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