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MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943)

Lot 7
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ID 931395
Lot 7 | MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943)
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MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943)

On the Beach

oil on masonite

22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm.)

Painted circa 1940-41.





Provenance

The artist.

Estate of the above.

Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, acquired from the above, 1946.

Wright Ludington, Santa Barbara, California, acquired from the above, 1946.

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 29 April 1976, lot 183.

Maurice and Suzanne Vanderwoude, New York, acquired from the above.

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, acquired from the above, 1984.

Jon and Barbara Landau, New York, acquired from the above, 1984.

Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, 1999.

Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, LLC, New York.

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2002.



Literature

Archives of American Art, Elizabeth McCausland Files.

D. Brian, "The Passing Shows: Hartley," Art News, vol. 41, March 1942, p. 27.

H. Goodman, "Marsden Hartley," Arts Magazine, vol. 52, April 1978, p. 19, illustrated.

R. Hobbs, Milton Avery, New York, 1990, pp. 108-09, fig. 11, illustrated.

R. Berlind, "Hartley’s Indicative Objects," Art in America, November 1, 2003, p. 150, illustrated.

A. Pooth, "On Stories and Codes, Myths and Passions: Marsden Hartley in New England and Berlin," From Hopper to Rothko: America's Road to Modern Art, New York, 2017, pp. 67-68, fig. 11, illustrated.



Exhibited

Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Advance Trends in Contemporary American Art, April 4-30, 1944, no. 46.

San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, and elsewhere, A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Marsden Hartley, May 1948-1951.

Greenvale, New York, Long Island University, C.W. Post Art Gallery, Marsden Hartley 1877-1943, November 6-December 14, 1977, pp. 27, 33, no. 40, illustrated.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Berkeley, California, University Art Museum, Marsden Hartley, March 4, 1980-January 4, 1981, pp. 128, 220, no. 94, pl. 60, illustrated.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., The Art of Collecting, March 23-April 21, 1984, p. 61, no. 45, illustrated.

New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Marsden Hartley: The Late Figure Works, June 4-30, 1990, n.p., no. 13, illustrated.

New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, A Gallery's Perspective: Modernist Painting and Sculpture in America: The Past 25 Years at Salander-O'Reilly, November 4-December 4, 1999, n.p., no. 32.

San Francisco, California, Hackett Freedman Gallery, Marsden Hartley: Observation and Intuition, February 1-March 31, 2001, pp. 8, 23, cover illustration.

Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum; Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Marsden Hartley: American Modernist, January 17-April 20, 2003, pp. 231, 319, no. 82, illustrated.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Legends: From Calder to O'Keeffe, December 22, 2012-June 9, 2014.

New York, James Reinish & Associates, Inc., Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper, November 2014, pp. 50-51, illustrated.

New York, The Met Breuer; Waterville, Maine, Colby College Museum of Art, Marsden Hartley's Maine, March 20-November 12, 2017, pp. 122-27, fig. 116, illustrated.

Humlebæk, Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Marsden Hartley: The Earth is All I Know of Wonder, September 19, 2019-January 19, 2020, pp. 7, 15-16, 104, 138, no. 90, illustrated.



Post Lot Text

This painting is included in The Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: Complete Paintings and Works on Paper, with Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine. We are grateful for Gail R. Scott’s assistance with the cataloguing of this work.
Artist:Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Art style:Modern art
Genre:Marine art
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