Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a painter, poet, writer, and pioneer of American modernism. Born in Lewiston, Maine, he lived a peripatetic life, working in Paris, Berlin, New York, Mexico, New Mexico, Bermuda, and elsewhere before returning to Maine in 1934. This superbly illustrated book encompasses the extraordinary range and depth of Hartley's creative output. Some seventy-five of his works--landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and abstract paintings--demonstrate the visual power for which Hartley gained acclaim as well as the development of his art over the course of his thirty-five-year career.
The book gathers together the most recent scholarship on Hartley's work, discussing such topics as the artist's working methods, his self-portraits, the influence of Cézanne on his work, and Hartley's attitudes toward Native Americans. A chronology of his life is included, and each painting is accompanied by a full catalogue entry.
This book is the catalogue of an exhibit that opens at the Wadsworth Atheneum from January 17 through April 12, 2003, then travels to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from May 18 through August 24, 2003; the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., from June 7 through September 7, 2003; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, from October 11, 2003, through January 11, 2004.
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