This exhibition will explore Marsden Hartley’s complex, sometimes contradictory, and visually arresting relationship with his native state—from the lush Post-Impressionist inland landscapes with which he launched his career, to the later roughly rendered paintings of Maine’s rugged coastal terrain, its hardy inhabitants, and the magisterial Mount Katahdin. ‘Marsden Hartley’s Maine’ will illuminate Maine as a critical factor in understanding the artist’s high place in American art history. It was a lifelong source of inspiration intertwined with his personal history, cultural milieu, and desire to create a regional expression of American modernism. Find out more about the Masrden Hartley exhibition from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website.
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The Ice Hole, Maine (1908–09), Marsden Hartley. New Orleans Museum of Art
Smelt Brook Falls (1937), Marsden Hartley. Saint Louis Art Museum
The Lighthouse (1940–41), Marsden Hartley. Collection of Pitt and Barbara Hyde
Storm Down Pine Point Way, Old Orchard, Maine (c. 1941–43), Marsden Hartley. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Canuck Yankee Lumberjack at Old Orchard Beach, Maine (1940–41), Marsden Hartley. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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