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Helen Torr Dove and Arthur Dove diary, 1936
Creator: Helen Torr Dove
SEPTEMBER 28–29, 1936
The daily activities of Arthur Dove were typically recorded by his wife, Helen Torr Dove. But in 1936, Helen had to abruptly leave the family farm in Geneva, New York, to help her ailing mother. Dove assumed diary duties in her absence. He often recorded the temperature and barometric pressure in notes on the day's weather. For a span of three months, he sketched enigmatic circles. Perhaps the multi-colored shadings were Dove's system for tracking the phases of the moon. Shortly after the diary ended, Dove depicted the moon in two paintings, The Moon Was Laughing at Me and Me and the Moon. |