The Dark Mountain
Marsden Hartley
1909
Medium
Oil on composition board
Dimensions
48.9 × 59.1 cm (19 1/4 × 23 1/4 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
65908
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...