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Marsden Hartley (American, 1878-1943)
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Marsden Hartley
City Point, Vinalhaven 1937-1938
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Marsden Hartley
Cynical Blue and Jovial Brown, Dogtown 1931
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Marsden Hartley
Desertion 1910
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Marsden Hartley
Insignia with Gloves 1936
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Marsden Hartley
Kennebec River, West Georgetown 1939
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Marsden Hartley
Late Fall, Maine circa 1908
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Biography |
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1877 |
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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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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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Modernidad americana. Obras de la Corcoran Gallery of Art - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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2008 |
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Pretty Ugly - Gavin Brown's Enterprise GBE modern, New York City, NY |
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2008 |
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Painting in the United States: 1943-1949 - Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA |
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2008 |
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The American Evolution - A History through Art - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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2008 |
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Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Shey Collection - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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2008 |
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Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (solo) |
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2008 |
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Marsden Hartley: American Modern - Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID (solo) |
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2008 |
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Marsden Hartley and The West: The Search for an American Modernism - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM (solo) |
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2007 |
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Marsden Hartley: American Modern - El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA), El Paso, TX (solo) |
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2007 |
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Marsden Hartley: American Modern - Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, IN (solo) |
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2006 |
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Marsden Hartley - American Modern - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL (solo) |
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2006 |
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Marsden Hartley: American Modern - New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM (solo) |
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2005 |
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Marsden Hartley - American Modern - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (solo) |
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2004 |
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Marsden Hartley: Image and Identity - Bates College Museum of Arts, Lewiston, ME (solo) |
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2003 |
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Marsden Hartley - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (solo) |
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2001 |
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Marsden Hartley - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) |
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1999 |
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Marsden Hartley - American Modern - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (solo) |
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1998 |
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Marsden Hartley: An American Modern - Newcomb Art Gallery , New Orleans, LA (solo) |
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1996 |
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Alfred Stieglitz and Early Modern Photography - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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1995 |
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Dictated by Life - Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN |
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1987 |
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The Window in Twentieth-Century Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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1944 |
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Marsden Hartley - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY (solo) |
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1913 |
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Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon - Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin (closed, 1932) |
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Public Collections
The Masterworks Foundation, Paget, Bermuda
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Stiftung Moritzburg - Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), Germany
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, USA
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA, USA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, USA
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, USA
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, USA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY, USA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, USA
University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford, MS, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, USA
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, USA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, USA
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, USA
The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, USA
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, USA
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, USA
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, USA
Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA, USA
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, USA
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, USA |
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