Berlin Abstraction
Marsden Hartley
1914/1915
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 80.8 × 64.8 cm (31 13/16 × 25 1/2 in.) framed: 101 × 85.1 × 5.7 cm (39 3/4 × 33 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)
Accession Number
2014.79.21
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...