Self-Portrait
Marsden Hartley
1908
Medium
black crayon on wove paper mounted to cardboard
Dimensions
overall: 30.3 x 22.6 cm (11 15/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
John Davis Hatch Collection, Avalon Fund
Accession Number
1983.2.3
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...