Arthur Dove, like his friend Georgia O'Keeffe, was one of the great American innovators of Modern art who wed nature and abstraction. Often, as in Thunderstorm, Dove used abstracted shapes and colors to suggest both sound and movement. Ominously dark clouds hover the jagged earth, bombarding it with torrents of rain, while a saw - tooth lightning bolt crackles downward. Dove's use of metallic paints ingeniously captures the reflective brilliance of a sky charged with lightning.
				American, 1921, Oil and metallic paint on canvas 21 1/2 x 18 1/8 in. Gift of Ferdinand Howald
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