The work of the American painter and poet Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) can be regarded as a bridge between European and American modernism.
In their mission statement cum manifesto, Williams and McAlmon state that the magazine had been initiated by the editors' “faith in the existence of native artists who are capable of having, comprehending and recording extraordinary ...
Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition of the early 20th century artist's paintings.
... brought out into the open , shown , and received . On Thanksgiving Day 1924 , Hartley signed a contract with four businessmen that would guarantee him financial independence for the next four years . An old friend , Louise Bryant ...
His relationship with Alfred Stieglitz, who supported him financially and exhibited his work, . . . runs like a leitmotif through the book, and indicates Hartley's character—demanding, touchy, often ungrateful but also compelling. . .
And unfolds his life largely through a chain of personal encounters.
This book is published with the cooperation of the Ackland Museum in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the Babcock Galleries in New York City.
Michael R. Taylor's discussion of the Provincetown and Bermuda paintings is the most complete to date. Taylor, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, delivered a paper at the University of ...
Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville and Poets
Marsden Hartley was first published in 1952. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota...