Marsden Hartley
1877–1943 · American modernism, Cubism · 9 works
Marsden Hartley’s painting changed as he moved between places, but landscape remained a recurring point of return. Raised in Maine, he studied in Cleveland and New York before traveling in Europe, where he encountered Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and other modern painters. Later journeys took him through New Mexico and beyond, and memories of one place sometimes became paintings made in another. His work ranges from concentrated arrangements of color and signs to strongly simplified mountains, still lifes, and figures. The changing forms make the emotional character of a place as important as its recognizable features.
9 works · 1909–1923
Compare The Dark Mountain with Movement. Which colors or repeated shapes carry the strongest feeling in each?
1909–1913 · 3 works
Walk these 3In the museum: American modernism room · 2 works
1916–1917 · 3 works
Walk these 3Two friends from Alfred Stieglitz’s circle share this room. Marsden Hartley and Charles Demuth became friends in Paris, both painted in Provincetown in the summer of 1916 and went to Bermuda together in 1917. Hartley’s oils run from a dark mountain to Berlin abstraction and New Mexico hills. Demuth’s watercolors show performers, dancers, rooftops and flowers in thin, clear color.
In the museum: American modernism room · 3 works
1918–1923 · 3 works
Walk these 3In the museum: American modernism room · 2 works
American modernism · 7 works
Walk these 7Two friends from Alfred Stieglitz’s circle share this room. Marsden Hartley and Charles Demuth became friends in Paris, both painted in Provincetown in the summer of 1916 and went to Bermuda together in 1917. Hartley’s oils run from a dark mountain to Berlin abstraction and New Mexico hills. Demuth’s watercolors show performers, dancers, rooftops and flowers in thin, clear color.
In the museum: American modernism room · 7 works
Cubism · 1 work
Walk this workOther works · 1 work
Walk this workCharles Demuth
Dancing Sailors, 1917
