Wendy Red Star. Top: iilaalée = car (goes by itself) + ii = by means of which + dáanniili = we parade, lithograph, 24 x 38 in. Bottom: Spring, 2006, color photograph. From the series “Four Seasons.”
On This Day in 1936, painter Arthur Dove recorded the day’s weather.
Art historian Rachel DeLue demonstrates the importance of reading Dove’s diaries in conversation with his artwork in the Spring 2016 issue of the Archives of American Art Journal: “Diaries are equally things to be visually investigated, unpacked, and thought critically about. And this looking and thinking leads, in Dove’s case, to the realization that certain ideas, investments, and motifs–among them circles, music, metal, electricity, radio, and the weather–unfold across the whole of his production, from his letter writing and diary keeping to his poetry, prose, painting, and sculpting.”







