Marsden Hartley, January 4, 1877–September 2, 1943, was an American painter, poet, and essayist. Born in Lewiston, Maine, he studied at the Cleveland School of Art, William Merritt Chase’s New York School of Art, and the National Academy of Design.
His teachers included John Semon, Cullen Yates, and William Merritt Chase. Alfred Stieglitz presented Hartley’s first solo exhibition in New York at the 291 gallery in 1909, and Hartley became associated with the artists promoted by Stieglitz. He worked in the United States and Europe, including extended periods in Paris and Berlin, and returned to Maine during the final years of his life.
Hartley’s work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and other major public collections.
Self-Portrait, 1908
Crayon on paper mounted on paperboard, 12 × 8.9 in
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
The Blast of Winter, 1908
Oil on canvas, 30 × 30 in
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Movement, 1913
Oil on canvas, 47 × 46.9 in
Art Institute of Chicago
Painting No. 48, Berlin, 1913–1914
Oil on canvas, 47.2 × 47.2 in
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Portrait of a German Officer, 1914
Oil on canvas, 68.3 × 41.4 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
American Indian Symbols, 1914
Oil on canvas, 39.3 × 39.3 in
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth
Painting No. 50, Berlin, 1914–1915
Oil on canvas, 47 × 47 in
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Lighthouse, 1915
Oil on canvas, 40 × 32 in
Private Collection
The Window, c 1923
Oil on canvas, 35.6 × 25.6 in
Columbus Museum of Art
Popocatepetl, Spirited Morning–Mexico, 1932
Oil on board, 25 × 29 in
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Yliaster (Paracelsus), 1932
Oil on paperboard mounted on particleboard, 25.3 × 28.5 in
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1938
Oil on commercially prepared paperboard (academy board), 28 × 22 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sustained Comedy, 1939
Oil on academy board, 28.1 × 22 in
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
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