Artist: Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943)
Nationality: American
Movement: Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in the United States, Marsden Hartley held his first solo exhibition in 1909 with the assistance of Alfred Stieglitz. Three years later, he traveled to Europe and lived there until 1916. His work was a reflection on modernist ideas, incorporating concepts of Expressionism and Cubism but also his own response. Hartley returned to the United States in 1918 and began landscape painting in a more traditional yet still stylized fashion. He spent his later life in traveling, beginning with a return to Europe in 1921. A decade later, he traveled to Mexico before settling in his home state of Maine. His last paintings were mostly coastal or mountain scenes.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Peggy Bacon - Marsden Hartley c. 1930 pastel on canvas Portland Museum of Art American
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Marsden Hartley, Waxenstein, 1933
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Marsden Hartley, Trees # 12, 1927
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Marsden Hartley, Flowers in Goblet, #3, 1923
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Marsden Hartley, Seated Male Nude, circa 1922
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Marsden Hartley, A Bermuda Window in a Semi-tropic Character, 1917
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Marsden Hartley, The Summer Camp, Blue Mountain, circa 1909
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Marsden Hartley - The Aero 1914 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Marsden Hartley - Mt. Katahdin 1941 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Marsden Hartley - Raptus c. 1913 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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Marsden Hartley - Abundance 1939-40 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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Marsden Hartley - New Mexico 1919-23 oil on canvas Portland Museum of Art American
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Marsden Hartley - Movements 1913-15 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Marsden Hartley - Himmel 1915 oil on canvas The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art American
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Marsden Hartley - Military 1914-1915 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Marsden Hartley - Lanscape No. 5 1922-1923 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Portrait of a German Officer, 1914 Marsden Hartley (American, 1877-1943)Oil on canvas; H. 68-1/4, W.
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Marsden Hartley - After the Storm, Vinalhaven 1938-39 oil on academy board Bowdoin College Museum of Art American
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Marsden Hartley - The Iron Cross 1915 oil on canvas Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum American
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Marsden Hartley - Painting No. 47, Berlin 1914-1915 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Marsden Hartley - Crow with Ribbons 1941-1942 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Marsden Hartley - Berlin Abstraction 1914-1915 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Marsden Hartley - Landscape and Mountains 1922-1923 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Marsden Hartley - Indian Fantasy 1914 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art American
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Marsden Hartley - Maine Coast #2 1940 Crayon and chalk on Des Moines Art Center American
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Marsden Hartley - Window, New Mexico 1919 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Marsden Hartley - Surf on Reef 1937-38 oil on board Portland Museum of Art American
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Marsden Hartley - Landscape, New Mexico 1923 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Marsden Hartley - The Ice Hole, Maine 1908 oil on canvas New Orleans Museum of Art American
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Marsden Hartley - Shell and Sea Anemones, Gloucester 1943 oil on board Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
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Marsden Hartley - Waterfall, Morse Pond 1940 oil on board Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Marsden Hartley - Cascade of Devotion - Mexico 1931 Oil on panel University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Marsden Hartley - Book And Ring, 2nd Version 1939-1940 oil on paperboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Marsden Hartley - Lilies In Rose Vase 1928 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Marsden Hartley - Christ Held By Half-Naked Men 1940-1941 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Marsden Hartley - Canuck Yankee Lumberjack At Old Orchard Beach, Maine 1940-1941 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Richards and Hartley, Compote, circa 1880
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Richards and Hartley, Compote with lid, circa 1880
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Richards and Hartley, Goblet, circa 1880
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Richards and Hartley, Goblet, circa 1880

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (12)
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Marsden Hartley: American Painter
Visitors to Marsden Hartley (1877-1943): American Painter, on view Oct. 11 through Jan. 4 at The Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., will be able to bear witness to one of the most renowned American artists of the 20th century. ...
Joslyn Art Museum: Marsden Hartley: American Modern
IMAGE:
Portrait
1914-1915,
oil on canvas,
32-1/4 x 21-1/2
Bequest of Hudson Walker
from the Ione and Hudson Walker Collection
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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Marsden Hartley: First Retrospective in over 20 Years
Widely acknowledged as the greatest of the early American modernists, Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) belonged to a circle of artists promoted by photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz that included Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, Arthur Dove, ...
Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Inc.: A Call for Artists for OCAF's Holiday Market '99
Located within easy distance of Athens and Atlanta, the Holiday Market will be held at the historic 1902 OCAF Art Center in picturesque Watkinsville, Georgia. For an application or more information visit OCAF on the world wide web at h...
Addison Gallery of American Art: To Conserve a Legacy American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Additional support has been generously provided by The Henry Luce Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Greentree Foundation, the Joseph Harrison Jackson Fo...
Addison Gallery of American Art: Parallel Perspectives: Early Twentieth Century American Art
Painting, sculpture, and works on paper by artists such as George Inness, Ralph Blakekock, George Bellows, Patrick Henry Bruce, Arthur B. Davies, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe present the multiple voices of Am...
Memphis Brooks Museum: O' So Calla Lilly - The Brooks Presents Georgia O'Keeffe
The exhibition's eight paintings by O'Keeffe, five by Hartley, and one by Demuth acknowledge the importance of this subject to the Stieglitz circle of modernist artists. O'Keeffe became known as "The Lady of the Lily" in the 1920s because o...
Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center: Apple TART: Virtual Tart meets the Big Apple Sponsored by Visual Arts League
Through having their work on the Virtual TART site they have hit the world. Dale Copeland has packed some of everyones artwork into 4 big suitcases and brought it to New York. Complete with photos of the a...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Placing Avery
Milton Avery had a strong, “Connecticut Yankee” work ethic. He painted for 50 years, some times spending all day for weeks at a time at his easel, and sometimes creating as many as five or six paintings or studies in one day.  He’s been quoted as...
Bates College Museum of Art: Manuel Lopez Oliva: Cuba and the Theatre of Desire
"Aside from being actors who take on different characters, sometimes merely for effect, sometimes out of desire -- the desire for self-expression, for power, for love, for truth -- we are also actors in the circumstances of history," he said. ...
Whitney Museum of American Art: Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2000
Curator Sylvia Wolf's selection focuses on artists who live and work in this country. Portraits, landscapes, street photographs, and genre subjects will be featured, including works by Vito Acconci, Diane Arbus, Matthew Barney, Dawoud Bey, Nancy B...
Smithsonian, National Museum of American Art and its Rewick Gallery: Treasures to Go!
`Storing treasures that attract more than half a million visitors each year was not an option the staff wanted to consider,` said Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonians American Art Museum. Instead, in January the museum is laun...

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