Berlin Abstraction
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
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Marsden Hartley · 1877–1943
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...