Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist painter and poet in the early 20th century. Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. Year 1877 ( MDCCCLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. Year 1943 ( MCMXLIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Modernism describes an array of Cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine, USA. Lewiston, in Androscoggin County, is the second-largest city in the U He began his art training at the Cleveland Institute of Art after moving to Cleveland, Ohio in 1892. The Cleveland Institute of Art is a private college of art and design located in University Circle, Cleveland Ohio. Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state Year 1892 ( MDCCCXCII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year

Contents 1 New York City 2 Travels 3 References 4 Bibliography 5 External links

New York City

At the age of 22, he moved to New York City, where he attended the National Academy of Design and studied painting with William Merritt Chase. The City of New York The National Academy of Design, in New York City, now called simply The National Academy is an honorary association of American Artists with a Museum William Merritt Chase ( November 1, 1849 &ndash October 25, 1916) was an American painter known as an exponent of A great admirer of Albert Pinkham Ryder, Hartley would visit Ryder's studio in Greenwich Village as often as possible. Albert Pinkham Ryder ( March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical Greenwich Village (ˌgrɛnɪtʃ ˈvɪlɪdʒ often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern Manhattan While in New York, he came to the attention of Alfred Stieglitz and became associated with Stieglitz' 291 Gallery Group. Alfred Stieglitz (January 1 1864 &ndash July 13 1946 was an American photographer who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making Photography an acceptable He was in the cultural vanguard, in the same milieu as Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, Fernand Leger, Ezra Pound, among many others. Gertrude Stein ( February 3, 1874 &ndash July 27, 1946) was an American Writer who spent most of her life in France Harold Hart Crane ( July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American Poet. Charles Demuth ( November 8, 1883 - October 23, 1935) was an American watercolorist who turned to oils late Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15 1887—March 6 1986 was an American Artist She is associated with the American Southwest where she found artistic inspiration Joseph Fernand Henri Léger ( February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and Ezra Weston Loomis Pound ( Hailey, Idaho Territory, United States October 30 1885 – Venice, Italy November 1 1972 was an American Expatriate

Hartley, who was gay,^[1] painted Portrait of a German Officer [1] (1914), which was an ode to Karl von Freyburg, a Prussian lieutenant of whom he became enamored before von Freyburg's death in World War I. In the English language, gay is an Adjective that in modern usage refers to Homosexuality. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All

Travels

Marsden Hartley traveled throughout the USA and Europe in the early years of the 20th century. Considered an early modernist, Hartley was a nomadic painter for much of his life. Modernism describes an array of Cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century He painted from Maine to Massachusetts, in New Mexico, California, New York and Western Europe. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ( is a state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. New Mexico ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Western Europe at its most general meaning means 'all the countries in the West of Europe ' Finally, after spending many years away from his native state, he returned to Maine toward the end of his life. He wanted to become "the painter of Maine" and depict American life at a local level. In this way, he is a member of the regionalists, a group of artists from the early to mid 20th century that attempted to represent a distinctly "American art. American scene painting refers to a naturalist style of painting and other works of art of the 1920s through the 1950s in the United States. "

Hartley is an icon among painters. He is considered one of the foremost American painters of the first half of the 20th century. He was also a fine poet, essayist and writer. His written work continues to resonate.

Cleophas and His Own: A North Atlantic Tragedy is a story based on two periods he spent in 1935 and 1936 with the Mason family in the Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia fishing community of East Point Island. Lunenburg County is a County located on the South Shore of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia Hartley, then in his late 50s, found there both an innocent, unrestrained love and the sense of home he had been seeking since his unhappy childhood in Maine. The impact of this rich experience lasted until his death in 1943, widening the scope of his mature work, which included numerous portrayals of the Masons, of whom he wrote: "Five magnificent chapters out of an amazing, human book, these beautiful human beings, loving, tender, strong, courageous, dutiful, kind, so like the salt of the sea, the grit of the earth, the sheer face of the cliff. " In Cleophas and His Own, written in Nova Scotia in the fall of 1936 and re-printed in Marsden Hartley and Nova Scotia, Hartley expresses his immense grief at the tragic drowning of the Mason sons. Nova Scotia (ˌnəʊvəˈskəʊʃə ( Latin for New Scotland; Alba Nuadh Nouvelle-Écosse is a Canadian province located on Canada 's The independent filmmaker Michael Maglaras has created a feature film Cleophas and His Own, released in 2005, which uses a personal testament by Hartley as its screenplay.

References

External links

Marsden Hartley writings

• Scans of Hartley's Adventures in the arts: informal chapters on painters, vaudeville and poets
• The Importance of Being "Dada" from Adventures in the arts.

Museums

• Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection and Archives, Bates College Museum of Art. Bates College is a private liberal arts college located in Lewiston Maine, in the United States.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Marsden Hartley
• Marsden Hartley - The National Gallery of Art
• Marsden Hartley: American Modern - Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Biographies and articles

• Marsden Hartley Biography: Hollis Taggart Galleries
• Marsden Hartley and Nova Scotia
• Cleophas and His Own a film by Michael Maglaras
• Marsden Hartley, Art and the Personal Life, 1928, by Hartley accessed online Aug. 7, 2007

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