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\n\tArthur Dove likely painted Sunrise, Northport Harbor, while sailing on the Mona, a forty-two-foot yawl he purchased in 1922 that served as his primary residence until his move to Geneva, New York, in 1933. The painting presents a view across Northport Harbor, Long Island, at dawn. Less concerned with recording objective facts than evoking through abstract form nature’s fundamental forces, Dove employs concentric circles of bright white, yellow, and orange to convey the warmth and radiance of sunlight. A smaller set of circles appears to float on the water, suggesting the reflection of the sun or perhaps serving as an emblem for the artist, whose pictures similarly reflect and refract the world.  It could be that Dove, buoyed by the waves while painting shipboard, felt especially attuned to water and its properties, prompting him to register in his canvas his affinity with the ever-changing sea.\n

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\n\tRachael Z. DeLue, Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art, Princeton University\n\t
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","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"[Alfred Stieglitz, An American Place, New York (NY), sometime between 1929-1946 [1]]. Purchased by John S. McGovern, by 1962; donated to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1962.\n\n[1] See the typewritten label once on the cardboard backing, which was removed in 1998 and is now preserved separately. The gallery organized several exhibitions for the artist in the 1930s.","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1929,"sortnumber":"1962 44y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:13:33.030772","objectid":29033,"dimensions":"38 × 51 cm (14 15/16 × 20 1/16 in.)\r\nframe: 41 × 53.7 cm (16 1/8 × 21 1/8 in.)\r\nexhibition frame: 41 × 53.8 × 5.4 cm (16 1/8 × 21 3/16 × 2 1/8 in.)","on_view":true}