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Dec 20, 2017 · Two such artists, the American painter Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) and the English poet Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), sought to memorialize the effects of the war in different ways: Hartley—one of the artists featured in the current exhibition World War I and the Visual Arts—communicated his personal grief at losing the man he loved in ...
Mount Katahdin, Autumn, No. 2. Marsden Hartley American. 1939–40. Not on view. Beginning in the mid-1930s, Hartley, a restless artist who had previously been associated with the European avant-garde, proclaimed himself to be the "Painter from Maine." Between 1939 and 1942, he created more than eighteen bold paintings of Maine’s highest peak ...
The exhibition Marsden Hartley’s Maine, on view at The Met Breuer from March 15 through June 18, 2017, will showcase the American artist’s lifelong artistic engagement with his home state of Maine. Approximately 90 paintings and drawings will illuminate his extraordinarily expressive range—from Post-Impressionist interpretations of ...
Oct 23, 2019 · Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was an American modernist painter. His embrace of Germany during World War I and the regionalist subject matter of his late-career work caused contemporary critics to dismiss the value of much of his painting. Today, Hartley's importance in the development of modernism and expressionism in American art is recognized.
Marsden Hartley, Intellectual Niece, 1939-40, Oil on panel, 22 1/2 x 12 1/2 in., Bates College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, Museum Purchase with major support from the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation and with support from Jeffery and Hillary Becton, Wanda M. Corn ’62 and Joseph J. Corn ’60, and Patricia ...
Mar 16, 2017 · Marsden Hartley, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution It was an important development. It answered Hartley’s growing ambition to be perceived as an urbane vanguard ...
Marsden Hartley. Born 1877, Lewiston, Maine. Died 1943, Ellsworth, Maine. Hartley lived a peripatetic life as he restlessly traveled throughout the US and Europe in search of modernist innovation and artistic discovery. From Maine, he traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, to begin his artistic training, then moved to New York City in 1899 to study with ...
