Marsden Hartley

Painter and writer, one of the pioneers of American modern art, born in Lewiston, Maine, USA. In 1892 he won a scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art, and in 1898 moved to New York City. He visited France and Germany (1912–15), experimenting with the latest styles. Inspired by Kandinsky and Franz Marc, his work became abstract, and he exhibited with the Blaue Reiter group.

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Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943) was an American painter and poet in the early 20th century.

Marsden Hartley was a nomadic painter for much of his life, but after spending many years away from his native state, he returned to Maine towards the end of his life. In this way, he is a member of the regionalists, a group of artists from the early 20th century that attempted to represent a distinctly "American Art"

Short Bibliography:

Cassidy, Donna M. Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2005.

Coco, Janice. “Dialogues with the Self: New Thoughts on Marsden Hartley’s Self-Portraits.” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 30 (2005): 623-649.

Hartley, Marsden.

Hartley, Marsden.

Haskell, Barbara. New York: New York University Press, 1980.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, Ed.

Ludington, Townsend.

Scott, Gail R. Marsden Hartley. New York: Abbeville Press, 1988.

Weinberg, Jonathan. Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the First American Avant- Garde. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.