A provocative new reading of the great American avant-garde arist Marsden Hartley's late work.
Marsden Hartley belonged to the circle of avant-garde artists surrounding Alfred Stieglitz - which included Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, and Charles Demuth. Of all these modernists, Hartley was the only...
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 ...
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. . .
... 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 ...
This book is published with the cooperation of the Ackland Museum in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the Babcock Galleries in New York City.
And unfolds his life largely through a chain of personal encounters.
His glory in Germany turns solemn with the onset of World War I and the death in combat of his close friend, a German officer named Karl von Freyburg - a loss vividly depicted in Hartley's renowned war motif paintings.".
Dictated by Life: Marsden Hartley's German Paintings and Robert Indiana's Hartley Elegies
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...