Joe Cannon is just beginning life at 86
Date1922
Artist
Arthur Dove
(American painter, 1880–1946)
Illustration Citation"Sprinting for Two Hundred" by Thomas L. Mason, in Success, October 1922
MediumCharcoal, gouache, and crayon on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 17 7/8 × 24 1/16 in. (45.4 × 61.1 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1986
Object number1986-86
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAlthough better known as a pioneering abstract painter, Dove earned his living for many years as an illustrator and cartoonist. His friends and contemporaries in New York included the realist painter-illustrators John Sloan, William Glackens, and Everett Shinn.
