Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922)
Arthur Wesley Dow was one of the most influential art teachers of his generation. His teaching and writings profoundly affected American painting, printmaking, ceramics and photography. But all of his instruction would have been less effective were it not for his own example as a painter and printmaker who was an important forerunner of Modernism.
Over the course of his career Dow’s own art drew inspiration from, and synthesized, a wide range of sources, from Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints and the decorative work of the English arts and crafts movement to the paintings of Duveneck, Whistler, and Gauguin.
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