{"data":{"id":"335","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":335,"topgoose_id":14784,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":335,"title":"Ferry Boat Wreck","display_artist_text":"Arthur Dove","display_date":"1931","accession_number":"56.21","dimensions":"Overall: 18 1/8 × 30 1/8 in. (46 × 76.5 cm)","medium":"Oil on canvas","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Neuberger","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eArthur Dove, \u003cem\u003eFerry Boat Wreck\u003c/em\u003e, 1931. Oil on canvas, overall: 18 1/8 × 30 1/8 in. (46 × 76.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Roy R. Neuberger 56.21. © The Estate of Arthur G. Dove courtesy Terry Dintenfass, Inc\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the mid-1920s, Arthur Dove turned his attention to the watery landscape of Long Island, where he was a resident caretaker for a local yacht club until 1933. Throughout this period, Dove made paintings and collages that reflect the moods and colors of water and the effects of nature’s forces on the ever-changing surface of the sea. \u003ci\u003eFerry Boat Wreck\u003c/i\u003e is an abstracted interpretation of a wreck he witnessed not far from his home. The dark forms of the sinking boat are outlined against a jagged strip of sand in the foreground and successive bands of waves that merge into clouds. A disk of concentric stripes–perhaps the sun or the moon–pierces the scene. With its overlapping spaces and abstracted, interpenetrating forms, \u003ci\u003eFerry Boat Wreck\u003c/i\u003e expresses Dove’s desire to examine the interrelation of objects and their environments, and to convey the sensations experienced in nature rather than visual realism.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A large dark log with an orange concentric fungus sits against layered green hills.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":true,"created_at":"2017-08-30T17:22:21.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:03.250-05:00","images":[{"id":91916,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/335/56_21_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"371","type":"artist"}]}}}}