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Look at the gray stumps standing like a broken fence in front, then at the thick dark lines that ripple across the hills beyond.
Hartley imagined this view: fallen trees from a New England forest in front, golden New Mexico hills behind. He had grown tired of the East Coast and went west hoping nature would renew him, staying eighteen months in 1918 and 1919. Like many New England artists of the time, he pictured the Southwest as empty and passed over the peoples who had lived there for centuries.
Oil on paperboard · 61.6 × 76.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Modernism · American modernism
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- Museum title
- The Last of New England—The Beginning of New Mexico
- Artist
- Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943)
- Date
- 1918–19
- Medium
- Oil on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 61.6 × 76.1 cm (24 1/4 × 29 15/16 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.