Provincetown
Marsden Hartley
1916
Medium
Oil on composition board
Dimensions
61 × 50.8 cm (24 × 20 1/16 in.)
Classification
oil on panel
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
65920
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...