Berlin Symbols #6
Marsden Hartley
1914-1915
Medium
compressed charcoal on laid paper mounted to paperboard
Dimensions
sheet: 63.5 × 48.26 cm (25 × 19 in.) support: 71.12 × 54.61 cm (28 × 21 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)
Accession Number
2014.136.205
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...