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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. 1913
    The Armory Show

    The International Exhibition of Modern Art opens in New York, then travels to Chicago and Boston, giving many Americans their first sight of European modern art.

    Source: Wikipedia
  3. 1920
  4. 1929
    The Wall Street Crash

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

  5. 1943
    Died

Circles

Exhibition · New York, Chicago, Boston · 1913

Armory Show (1913)

The International Exhibition of Modern Art that introduced European modern art to American audiences, shown in New York, Chicago and Boston in 1913. Members here are artists whose work was included, living or not.

Source: Wikipedia

Where to see them

Yale University Art Gallery

New Haven

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