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Look at how the pink, black and gray slabs stack into a tall wedge, then at the ring of black and white marks beneath it.
Hartley spent the summer of 1916 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he made a series of abstract pictures inspired by the ships in its harbor. Charles Demuth was there too and took his first steps toward Cubism, perhaps prompted by Hartley. In 2012 this panel hung in a Museum of Modern Art exhibition on the invention of abstraction.
Oil on composition board · 61 × 50.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Modernism · Cubism · American modernism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Provincetown
- Artist
- Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943)
- Date
- 1916
- Medium
- Oil on composition board
- Dimensions
- 61 × 50.8 cm (24 × 20 1/16 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.