To the Editors:
Despite Hilton Kramer’s first-paragraph sideswipe at the “academic, lackluster” prose of my book, Arthur Dove: Life and Work, With a Catalogue Raisonné, I read his essay (“A Catalogue Raisonné for Arthur Dove,” February, 1985) with interest. As he has in the past, Hilton Kramer writes about Dove’s work with insight and, if I may say so, an admiration that seems no less ardent than that which he ascribes to me.

Nevertheless, because Mr. Kramer and I do not reach the same conclusions about the artist, I would like to raise a few points in relation to his review. For one thing, I would like to comment on Mr. Kramer’s statement that I “simply cannot accept the fact of Dove’s isolation from precisely the kind of history that, as an historian of modern art, obviously means the most to her.” True. I am sorry that my book has not converted Mr. Kramer from the...

 

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