Representative work by Marsden Hartley
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Artist

Marsden Hartley

1877–1943 · American

  • Art Students League of New York
  • National Academy of Design
  • Cleveland Institute of Art

Marsden Hartley moved between abstraction, portraiture and landscape in a career shaped by Berlin, New Mexico and his native Maine. His German Officer paintings of 1914–15 combine military insignia, coded desire and abstraction into some of early American modernism’s most intense images.

Painting; writing

Objects

Major Works

  • 1914Portrait of a German Officer
  • 1913The Warriors
  • 1914–15Berlin Abstraction
  • 1939–40Mount Katahdin, Autumn No. 1
  • 1931Dogtown
  • 1914Indian Composition
  • 1914–15Painting No. 5
  • 1941Maine Coast
  • 1940Madawaska—Acadian Light-Heavy
  • 1940–41Canuck Yankee Lumberjack at Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Interviews & Writing