[1] Reflections is a highly representative Dove piece, a flowing abstract landscape with trees under a prominent Sun.

Although at first glance a straightforward landscape, Dove once referred to it as "Reflections (from headlights in car)", indicating a more complex possible reading.

His bold, emotional paintings earned him membership in the Stieglitz Group, a cadre of Americans devoted to modernism.

His work underwent a profound shift in this period, as his artistic and geographic isolation led him to concentrate on scenes from his bucolic surroundings and the "purely formal appeal of natural objects' shapes and lines, which he emphasized to the point of abstraction with organic shapes and unexpected color schemes".

The work then shuttled through private and corporate collections before returning to New York and the Alexandre Gallery, from which it was purchased by the IMA.