biografia di Marsden HARTLEY (1877-1943)

Birth place: Lewinston, ME

Death place: Ellsworth, ME

Addresses: Ellsworth, ME

Profession: Painter, drawing specialist, lithographer, lecturer, teacher, writer

Studied: Cleveland Sch. Art (scholarship) with Cullen Yates and Nina Waldeck and privately with John Semon; 1898-99 at the Chase School, NYC with Mora, Dumond and Chase; NAD, 1900 with Blashfield; ASL; Cox; Francis Jones

Exhibited: Stieglitz"s Gal. "291," 1909; Blue Rider Group, Munich; Autumn Salon, Berlin; Armory Show, 1913; Max Liebermann, Berlin, 1914; Dresden; Breslau; Provincetown, 1916; Ogunquit, ME, 1917; S. Indp. A., 1917, 1921; Bermuda, 1918; New Mexico, 1919-20; Gal. Briant-Robert, Paris, 1924-26; Salons of Am., 1931, 1933; WMAA, 1932-42; AIC, 1932-42; PAFA, 1933-34, 1939-43 (prize, 1940); Corcoran Gal., 1935-57 (6 times); Herron Sch. Art, 1946 (solo); Univ. Minnesota, 1953; Roswell (NM) Mus., 1958-59; AFA Traveling Exh. 1960-62; M. Diamond FA, NYC, 1983

Work: BM; PMG; WMAA; MMA; BMFA; Delaware AM, Wilmington; Milwaukee AC; Barnes Fnd., Phila.; Columbus Gal. FA; Mus. New Mexico; CMA.

Comments: An important early modernist, his career was launched by Alfred Stieglitz who gave him his first solo show in New York in 1909. He traveled to Germany in early 1913, living in Berlin (with visits to Munich and Paris) until December 1915. The cultural climate of Berlin had a powerful impact on Hartley"s work in this period and he created bold, emotional Expressionist paintings. He returned to NYC, but by 1918 was in New Mexico where he painted expressive landscapes and a series of still-life oils. Even at his most abstract, nature as a spiritual force was at the core of most of his work. In 1921, an auction of his paintings by Anderson Galleries, NYC, permitted his return to Europe. Throughout his life he moved about continuously, living and painting in one place for a brief period before moving on to another: Berlin (1921-24), Provence (1926-28), Berlin (1927 and 1929), New Hampshire (1930), Cape Cod (1931), Mexico and Berlin (1932-33), Maine (1934-35), Nova Scotia (1936), and Bermuda. He remained in Maine from 1937. His late work consists primarily of abstracted landscapes, powerful in form and color, with the motif of mountains appearing frequently.

Sources: WW40; Baigell, Dictionary; P & H Samuels, 210; Eldredge, et al., Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945, 197; Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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