Since the dawn of humanity, people have looked up into the night sky, enraptured by the glow of the moonlight. Hanging less than 250,000 miles above the Earth, the moon has inspired artists like ...

Dove (1880-1946) was the one who most baffled the critics, and not just because, in the work of the Ashcan School artists and others, American art up to that time had been entirely representational.