Part of Alfred Stieglitz's early 1900s avant - garde artistic circle, Dove held his first exhibition in 1910, showing «The Ten Commandments» series in which
he represented biblical themes through abstract, undulating forms.
«It is quite proper for
biblical theologians to judge that a particular passage
represents a more central, or higher, or more positive contribution than others do,» Barr writes, «and conversely to judge that another passage, or
theme, or writer
represents an unfortunate turning, a declension or deterioration.»