Marsden Hartley was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist.
18 Facts About Marsden Hartley
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Marsden Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine, where his English parents had settled.
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Marsden Hartley's mother died when he was eight, and his father remarried four years later to Martha Marsden.
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In 1898, at the age of 22, Marsden Hartley moved to New York City to study painting at the New York School of Art under William Merritt Chase, and then attended the National Academy of Design.
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Marsden Hartley was a great admirer of Albert Pinkham Ryder and visited his studio in Greenwich Village as often as possible.
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From 1900 to 1910, Marsden Hartley spent his summers in Lewiston and the region of Western Maine near the village of Lovell.
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Marsden Hartley continued to exhibit his work at 291 and Stieglitz's other galleries until 1937.
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Marsden Hartley traveled to Europe for the first time in April 1912, and he became acquainted with Gertrude Stein's circle of avant-garde writers and artists in Paris.
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Stein, along with Hart Crane and Sherwood Anderson, encouraged Marsden Hartley to write as well as paint.
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Marsden Hartley's work during this period was a combination of abstraction and German Expressionism, fueled by his personal brand of mysticism.
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Two of Marsden Hartley's Cezanne-inspired still life paintings and six charcoal drawings were selected to be included in the landmark 1913 Armory Show in New York.
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In Berlin, Marsden Hartley developed a close relationship with a Prussian lieutenant, Karl von Freyburg, who was the cousin of Marsden Hartley's friend Arnold Ronnebeck.
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Hartley returned to the US from Berlin as a German sympathizer following World War I Hartley created paintings with much German iconography.
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The drinkware calls back to the gatherings hosted by Gertrude Stein, where Marsden Hartley met Pablo Picasso, and Robert Delaunay.
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From 1916 to 1921 Marsden Hartley lived and worked in Provincetown, Bermuda, New York, and New Mexico.
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Marsden Hartley was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, which he spent in Mexico from 1932 to 1933, followed by a year in the Bavarian Alps.
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Marsden Hartley finally returned to Maine in 1937, after declaring that he wanted to become "the painter of Maine" and depict American life at a local level.
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Marsden Hartley was not overt about his homosexuality, often redirecting attention towards other aspects of his work.