Painter, printmaker, and photographer, Arthur Wesley Dow made his greatest contribution to American art not as an artist, but as a lifelong teacher and author. His innovative approach to design, canonized in his seminal manual Composition in 1899, taught his followers to see the essential elements of art and trained teachers to spark interest in budding artists, especially public-school children. His approach to the ideals of harmony, simplicity, and beauty nurtured what would become “the New Art”, a term which de-mystified creativity. It has been said that there is not a single aspect of the Arts and Crafts movement and even Modernism that hasn’t been touched by Dow’s progressive “visual music” of line, space, and color. The impact of Dow’s principles is a rich and complicated tale of connections in virtually all artistic media.

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