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Aside from its technical interest as a tour de force, this painting is done with metallic prints on aluminum has tremendously exciting implications. So, too, with "Red Tree and Sun" of the same year in which Dove's powers as a colorist are well exemplified with a superbly subtle modulation of chrome yellows and vermilions. 
The chef d'oeuvrer of the exhibition, however is probably "The Nigger goes A-Fishing,", 1925, a construction of the sort the surrealists have since made popular, a deep glass covered box in which broken pieces of a bamboo fishing pole and the sleeves of a workman's blue cotton shirt are worked into a splendid composition. These pictures, together with the 1934 oils, indicate what might be expected of this sensitive and gifted artist if only he might have a small measures of that economic security which other less worthy artists win to a disproportionate extent. 
ELIZABETH McCAUSLAND 

The Springfield Sunday Union & Republican April 22, 1934

"IT HAS BEEN SAID"
NUMBER FOUR
AN AMERICAN PLACE
509 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK CITY

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