Landscape No. 3, Cash Entry Mines, New Mexico
1920
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
70.6 × 90.8 cm (27 3/4 × 35 3/4 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
65937
Art Historical Context
Marsden Hartley's *Landscape No. 3, Cash Entry Mines, New* (1920) captures the rugged beauty of New Mexico's mining country in a striking oil-on-canvas painting measuring 70.6 × 90.8 cm. Painted during Hartley's brief but transformative stay in the American Southwest from 1919 to 1920, the work depicts the stark industrial landscape of the Cash Entry Mines, with their earthy tones and dramatic forms evoking the harsh yet majestic terrain. A key figure in American modernism, Hartley drew from his earlier experiences with German Expressionism, infusing this piece with bold colors, simplified sh...
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...