Born in Lewiston, Maine, Marsden Hartley became one of the most famous early modernist artists of twentieth-century American art, known for landscapes, still lifes, and some portraits. His painting... Read full biography
Born in Lewiston, Maine, Marsden Hartley became one of the most famous early modernist artists of twentieth-century American art, known for landscapes, still lifes, and some portraits. His painting showed a focus on monumental shapes, especially clouds and landscape forms, and his unique style has... Read full biography
Born in Lewiston, Maine, Marsden Hartley became one of the most famous early modernist artists of twentieth-century American art, known for landscapes, still lifes, and some portraits. His painting showed a focus on monumental shapes, especially clouds and landscape forms, and his unique style has been described by critic Sadakichi Hartmann as "an extreme and up-to-date impressionism" and "emerging modernism that evolved through Impressionism". (Gerdts 291). He had a lonely, insecure childhood... Read full biography
Born in Lewiston, Maine, Marsden Hartley became one of the most famous early modernist artists of twentieth-century American art, known for landscapes, still lifes, and some portraits. His painting showed a focus on monumental shapes, especially clouds and landscape forms, and his unique style has been described by critic Sadakichi Hartmann as "an extreme and up-to-date impressionism" and "emerging modernism that evolved through Impressionism". (Gerdts 291). He had a lonely, insecure childhood because his mother died when he was eight years old, and he was raised by an older sister when his father left to remarry. He studied art in Cleveland, Ohio and then in 1898 went to the Chase School in New York and at the National Academy of Design.... Read full biography
Born in Lewiston, Maine, Marsden Hartley became one of the most famous early modernist artists of twentieth-century American art, known for landscapes, still lifes, and some portraits. His painting showed a focus on monumental shapes, especially clouds and landscape forms, and his unique style has been described by critic Sadakichi Hartmann as "an extreme and up-to-date impressionism" and "emerging modernism that evolved through Impressionism". (Gerdts 291). He had a lonely, insecure childhood because his mother died when he was eight years old, and he was raised by an older sister when his father left to remarry. He studied art in Cleveland, Ohio and then in 1898 went to the Chase School in New York and at the National Academy of Design. He continued to spend much time in Maine painting landscapes, and by 1909 had his first exhibition, which was held at New York... Read full biography
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About Marsden Hartley: Books
Books & Publications (430)
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American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson
2017
Murphy, Kevin D.
128 pages (color)
Works on Paper from the Collection of the Sheldon Museum of Art
2016
Rudd, Brandon and Gregory Nosan, Editors; Wally Mason, Director's Mewssage
312 pages (color)
Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra Del Fuego to the Arctict
2015
Edited by Brownlee, Peter; Valeria Piccoll and Georjiana Uhlyark
320 pages (color)
Southwest Art History Conference Abstracts, 1996-2013
2014
Fahlman, Betsy (Editor)
217 pages (color)
A Legacy of Giving: The Anna and Frank Hall Collection (The Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln) (Exhibition catalog)
2012
Embury, Stuart; Brandon K. Ruud; Norman Geske; Jorge Daniel Veneciano, Introduction
80 pages (color)
Light, Landscape and the Creative Quest: Early Artists of Santa Fe
2012
Lewandowski, Stacia
272 pages (color)
A History of American Tonalism
2010
Cleveland, David Adams
592 pages (color)
Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones: The Artist Who Lived Twice
2010
Smith, Barbara Lehman
264 pages (color)
Cezanne and American Modernism (Exhibition catalog)
2010
Stavitsky, Gail; Katherine Rothkopf
372 pages (color)
Still Looking: Essays on American Art
2006
Updike, John
240 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Marsden Hartley Race, Religion, and Nation
2005
Cassidy, Donna M
395 pages (color)
Maine: A Legacy in Painting, 1830 to the Present (Spanierman Galleries Exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
2005
Chambers, Bruce (essay)
108 pages (color)
Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 30 Dialogues with the Self
2005
Coco, Janice
0 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Barter, Judith & Kelly, Sarah
184 pages (color)
Four Artists of the Stieglitz Circle: A Sourcebook
2002
Harnsberger, A Scott
333 pages
An American Point of View The Daniel J. Terra Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Kennedy and Bourguignon(essays
194 pages (color)
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002
Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)
352 pages (color)
Marsden Hartley: American Modernist
2002
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
330 pages (color)
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art
2002
Lynes, Barbara Buhler
140 pages (color)
My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915
2002
Stieglitz, Alfred; Marsden Hartley, James Timothy Voorhies
0 pages
Inheriting Cubism: The Impact of Cubism on American Art, 1909-1936 Hollis Taggart Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Cauman, John (Essay); Stacey B. Epstein (Intro)
0 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: An Institutional History in Pictures (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Siedell, Daniel A.
9 pages (color)
On Island: A Century of Continuity and Change
2000
McAvoy, Suzette Lane
58 pages (color)
America Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Spanierman Gallery
56 pages (color)
The Gilded Edge
2000
Wilner, Eli et al
0 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
1999
Passantino, Erika D (editor)
819 pages (color)
Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950
1999
Porter, Dean; Teresa Ebie
400 pages (color)
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
New Mexico Art of the State
1998
Bix, Cynthia
96 pages (color)
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
American Modernism and the German Avant Garde Concerning Expressionism (Exhibition catalog)