Flowers in Goblet #2
1923
Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 44.77 × 26.83 cm (17 5/8 × 10 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.2369
Art Historical Context
Marsden Hartley's *Flowers in Goblet2* (1923) captures the quiet elegance of a still life in a striking black lithograph on smooth wove paper. The irregular image, measuring about 17⅝ × 10⁹⁄₁₆ inches, depicts a simple arrangement of flowers in alet, rendered with bold contrasts and fluid lines that evoke the artist's modernist sensibility. Hartley, a pioneering American modernist, drew from his experiences in Europe—particularly Berlin in the early 1920s—where he absorbed influences from German Expressionism and Post-Impressionism, infusing everyday subjects with emotional depth and abstractio...
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...