
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
- 1877Born
- 1920
- 1929The Wall Street Crash
The Great Depression begins, and American painters turn to local places and ordinary lives.
- 1943Died
Where to see them
Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven