For decades, the whereabouts of a rarely seen painting by Marsden Hartley remained unknown, leading many experts to wonder if it still existed at all. But then, last summer, a Hartley scholar finally ...

Two stunning paintings by the American Modernist Marsden Hartley were the first things curator Mathias Ussing Seeberg encountered when he visited “America Is Hard to See,” the Whitney Museum of ...

Lewiston-born artist Marsden Hartley never owned a home and had few material goods. But when he died 79 years ago, he left the world a wealth of canvases and works on paper. In part because he was so ...

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), a native son of Lewiston Maine, is recognized as one of the great American modernists, so it is befitting that one of the Museum of Art’s most notable collections is the ...

It has taken an awfully long time for our art institutions to grant full recognition to the achievements of the It has taken an awfully long time for our art institutions to grant full recognition to ...

Marsden Hartley, “Log Jam, Penobscot Bay” (1940–41), oil on hardboard (masonite), 30 1/16 x 40 15/16 inches, Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill (all images courtesy the ...

Marsden Hartley, “Green and Purple Grapes in a Basket” (1928) OK, full disclosure: I have never been a huge Marsden Hartley fan. I know that Hartley is “important” in modernist art history, but ...

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A painting by American modernist Marsden Hartley was recovered in a bank vault after being missing for 40 years. The painting, "Friend Against the Wind," was completed in 1936 and only exhibited twice ...

I kept trying to remember the precise wording of something I’d read by Marsden Hartley, as I walked through The Met Breuer, savoring “Marsden Hartley’s Maine.”1 I recalled that the essay was titled ...

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