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The lives, circles and cities behind the paintings

American1877–1943

Marsden Hartley

An American Modernist painter, poet and essayist from Lewiston, Maine, who learned from the Cubists in Paris and Berlin. Alfred Stieglitz gave him a solo show at his 291 gallery in 1909, and he arrived at a personal Expressionism, strongest in his late paintings of the Maine landscape.

A life in paintings

  1. 1877
    Born
  2. 1920
  3. 1929
    The Wall Street Crash

    The Great Depression begins, and American painters turn to local places and ordinary lives.

  4. 1943
    Died

Where to see them

Yale University Art Gallery

New Haven

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