Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain

(1877–1943) amerikansk målare och poet

Marsden Hartley (USA, 1877–1943) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Marsden Hartley belongs to the chapter ‘The avant-garde’ in this site’s history of art.

Marsden Hartley was born in Lewiston and died in Ellsworth. Marsden Hartley trained at Art Students League of New York, National Academy of Design, and Cleveland Institute of Art. Marsden Hartley worked in Paris, Berlin, Munich, and Mexico. Wikidata associates Marsden Hartley with Dada and Expressionism. Marsden Hartley was awarded Guggenheim Fellowship.

The works belong mainly to the genres portrait, still life, and landscape painting. The catalogue has 57 works by Marsden Hartley with free images. The dated works span the years 1908–1941. Works by Marsden Hartley are held by several collections, among them Metropolitan Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Harvard Art Museums. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The avant-garde’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Adolf Kašpar, Rinaldo Cuneo, T. Frantisek Simon, Jean Dunand, and Hede Von Trapp.