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Notice how the white napkin breaks into flat, angled pieces while the pear in front stays round and solid.
Despite its title, this panel of 1917 is a still life: a pear and a banana on a dark round tray, with a white napkin folded into sharp planes. Hartley had used the title Movement for abstract pictures before, in Berlin in 1913 and in Provincetown in 1916. Here he brings that flat, cut-out way of painting back to ordinary things on a table.
Oil on composition board · 38.7 × 49.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Modernism · American modernism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Movement No. 10
- Artist
- Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943)
- Date
- 1917
- Medium
- Oil on composition board
- Dimensions
- 38.7 × 49.5 cm (15 1/4 × 19 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.