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Born: Lewiston, Maine (Edmund Hartley- January 4th)
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1943 |
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Dies: Maine (September 2nd)
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Enrolls at Cleveland School of Art but leaves in 1899 after receiving a New York School of Art five year scholarship
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Transfers to National Academy of Design, New York
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Adopts stepmother’s maiden surname, Marsden, and calls himself Edmund Marsden Hartley
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Drops his first name and calls himself Marsden Hartley
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In New York, meets Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer and influential art dealer of modern American artists (including John Marin, Arthur Dove, and Georgia O’Keeffe); solo show at Stieglitz’s Gallery 291 (the first of eight more solo shows with Stieglitz, the last in 1937); receives weekly stipend from dealer N.E. Montross for next two years; completes Dark Mountain series, inspired by Albert Pinkham Ryder
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Matisse and Rodin drawing exhibition at 291 inspires his palette to change to bright fauvist colors; Picasso exhibition at 291 influences his own abstractions
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Solo show at 291; travels to Europe for first time, settles in Paris; meets Leo and Gertrude Stein; befriends Germans Arnold Ronnebeck and his cousin, Karl von Freyburg; begins still lifes inspired by Cezanne; produces abstractions based on Christian mythics
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Travels to Berlin and Munich, settles in Berlin; meets Kandinsky and Franz Marc; makes abstractions of Berlin military pageantry; participates in Armory show in New York
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Returns to New York for third solo exhibition at 291; travels again to Berlin and begins ‘Amerika” series which includes Native American imagery; father dies; friend Karl von Freyburg killed in war; begins German Officer paintings
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Participates in The Forum exhibition at Anderson Galleries, New York; solo show at 291 comprised of German Officer paintings; travels include: Provincetown, Massachusetts (summer 1916, spent with artists Carl Sprinchorn, Charles Demuth, William and Marguerite Zorach), Bermuda with Charles Demuth (winter 1916), and Maine (summer 1917)
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Arrives in Taos, New Mexico, settles in Santa Fe; works in pastel and makes New Mexico landscapes
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Visits Carl Sprinchorn in California; summer and fall in New Mexico; returns to New York
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Proceeds from New York auction at Anderson Galleries supports him for many years; returns to Berlin via Paris
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Prints series of lithographs; paints still lifes of bowls, baskets, fruit, and bread; starts New Mexico Recollections series, 1923; visits Italy, 1923
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Forms network of collectors who provide stipend for four years; travels to Paris via London, Brussels, Antwerp; continues New Mexico Recollections
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Rents house in Vence, France, for one year; produces landscapes of Italian Alps near Gattiere and Carros
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Moves to Aix-en-Provence and rents former studio of Cezanne; begins Mont Sainte-Victoire paintings inspired by Cezanne; travels to Paris, Berlin, and Hamburg
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Returns to New York; summers in New Hampshire and Maine; travels to Paris and paints seashell still lifes
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Solo exhibition at Alfred Stieglitz’s Intimate Gallery, New York; travels include: Aix-en-Provence, Marseilles, Toulouse, Paris, London, Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden; returns to New York in 1930
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Receives Guggenheim fellowship travel grant and chooses Mexico; summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts and begins first of three series of “Dogtown” paintings; arrives Mexico City, 1932, moves to Cuernavaca; included in the first Whitney Biennial
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Sails to Hamburg in April, stays through summer; travels to Bavarian Alps and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in September, stays through winter; long hikes inspire drawings and paintings of these mountains; Hartley begins his autobiography, Somehow a Past
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Departs Europe, never to return again; spends winters in New York for rest of his life, and summers frequently in Maine and Massachusetts; summers in Gloucester and starts second “Dogtown” series
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Poor finances force his destruction of a hundred works of art to escape storage bills; becomes depressed and ill; travels to Bermuda for rehabilitation, then to Nova Scotia where he boards with family of Francis and Martha Mason on Eastern Points Island
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Employed by Works Progress Administration in New York; solo show at Alfred Stieglitz’s An American Place; returns to Eastern Points Island and works on third series of “Dogtown” pictures from memory; Mason sons Donny and Alty drown in hurricane and Hartley’s devastation prompts his return to New York
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Last solo show at Stieglitz’s An American Place; Hudson D. Walker becomes Hartley’s new dealer; moves to Portland, Maine
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First solo show at Hudson D. Walker Gallery in New York (contines annual solo shows through 1940); summers in Maine; begins series of portraits of Nova Scotia people; moves to Boston
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Summer travels in Maine: Portland, Lewiston, Auburn, Corea, and Bangor; climbs Mount Katahdin
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Represented by Macbeth Galleries, New York, after Hudson D. Walker Gallery closes; new paintings feature figures on beaches and seascapes; writes prose poem Cleophas and His Own, based on his Nova Scotia experience; travels to Cincinnati for joint show with Stuart Davis at Cincinnati Art Museum
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Solo exhibition at Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art awards Hartley purchase prize from Artists for Victory exhibition
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