Apples in Basket
1923
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Linda and Louis Kaplan
Accession Number
1987.53.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Apples in Basket**1923) by Marsden invites visitors into a serene still life captured through the precise medium of graphic arts-print. Housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum as a gift from Linda and Louis Kaplan, this showcases a humble arrangement of apples nestled in a basket—a timeless motif that celebrates everyday abundance. Hartley's choice of printmaking highlights the era's growing interest in accessible art reproduction, allowing modernist visions to reach wider audiences beyond traditional paintings. As a key figure in early American modernism, Hartley often explored bold ...
About the Artist
Marsden Hartley
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) was one of the most significant and searching figures of American modernism, an artist whose restless travels and personal intensity drove him to synthesize European avant-garde currents with a deeply American sensibility rooted in landscape, loss, and spiritual longing. Born in Lewiston, Maine, he studied at the Cleveland School of Art and later at the National Academy...