MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943)

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Lot 9 | MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943)
MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877-1943)

New England Sea View—Fish House

signed and dated 'Marsden Hartley/1934' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)

oil on board

18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 60.9 cm.)

Painted in 1934.





Provenance

The artist.

Estate of the above.

Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, acquired from the above, 1944.

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur B. Lathrop, Indianapolis, Indiana, acquired from the above, 1944.

Parke-Bernet, New York, 10 December 1970, lot 39, sold by the above.

Hudson D. Walker, New York, acquired from the above.

Private collection, by descent.

Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1997.



Literature

Archives of American Art, Elizabeth McCausland Files.

Magazine of Art, vol. 29, 1936, p. 330, illustrated.

H. Kramer, "Art: From Gloucester the Bypassed Haven," The New York Times, February 5, 1982.

G.R. Scott, Marsden Hartley, New York, 1988, pp. 103-05, pl. 92, illustrated.

B. Weber, The Heart of the Matter: The Still Lifes of Marsden Hartley, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2003, p. 63, fig. 48, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, An American Place, Marsden Hartley: First Exhibition in Four Years, All Pictures Show for the First Time Publicly, March 22-April 14, 1936, one of nos. 16-22 (as Fish House Vista - New England Coast).

Baltimore, Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Work of Three Outstanding Contemporary American Painters: Hartley - Intellectual, Cadmus - Satirist, Burchfield - Romanticist, July 1-September 3, 1942.

San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art, Contemporary Painting Exhibition, 1944.

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College, Lawrence Art Museum; Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery; Chicago, Illinois, Arts Club of Chicago; Austin, Texas, University of Texas, College of Fine Arts; Jacksonville, Illinois, MacMurray College; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art; Colorado Springs, Colorado, Taylor Museum; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center, Lyonel Feininger/Marsden Hartley, October 24, 1944-1945, pp. 78, 91-93 (as New England Fish House).

London, Hayward Gallery, The Modern Spirit: American Paintings 1908-1935, September 28-November 20, 1977, no. 128 (as New England Fish House).

Ontario, Canada, The Gallery, Coasts, The Sea, and Canadian Art, July 28-October 1, 1978, n.p., no. 17.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, William Carlos Williams and the American Scene, December 12, 1978-February 4, 1979, p. 52, fig. 15, 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, p. 108, no. 72, pl. 49, illustrated.

Southampton, New York, The Parrish Art Museum, An American Place, May 24-July 19, 1981, n.p., no. 21.

New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, The Gloucester Years, February 6-March 4, 1982.

New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Marsden Hartley: Paintings and Drawings, March 6-April 27, 1985, n.p., no. 27, illustrated.

Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, A Family Album: Brooklyn Collects, March 2-July 1, 2001.

San Francisco, California, Berggruen Gallery, American Modernism, June 4-August 24, 2018.

Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, A Family Album: Brooklyn Collects, March 2-July 1, 2001.



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.
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