Still Life No. 15
c. 1917
Medium
Oil on composition board
Dimensions
59.4 × 49.5 cm (23 3/8 × 19 1/2 in.)
Classification
oil on panel
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
65930
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Marsden Hartley turned to still-life painting throughout his career, restlessly using the genre as a means of aesthetic experimentation as he worked out new ideas, styles, and motifs. During the 1910s, influenced by the works of Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, he produced numerous compositions, including Still Life No. 15, a spare arrangement of a white goblet holding a lone pink flower against a backdrop of cream and blue fabric. Unlike many works by Hartley from this period, wh...
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...