SOLD Flowers
by Marsden Hartley (1877–1943)24 x 19⅝ inches
On verso: Marsden Hartley
Provenance
The estate of the artist
Knoedler and Co., New York, New York
Oliver M. Brooks
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, December 5, 1991, lot 100
Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, New York
Leah and Richard Waitzer, Virginia
Alexandre Gallery, New York, New York
Private collection, New York, New York
Exhibited
Lee Ault & Co., New York, New York, ca. 1970s
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, Proud Possessions: A Community Collects, May 29–July 19, 1992
Vance Jordan Fine Art, New York, New York, Power and Whimsy: A Private Collection of American Modernism, April 28–June 5, 2003
Literature
Proud Possessions: A Community Collects (Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum of Art, 1992), 49.
Andrea Dale Smith, Kendall Scully, and Carol Irish, Power and Whimsy: A Private Collection of American Modernism (New York: Vance Jordan Fine Art, 2003), 32, 84, 85, plate 21.
Artist Biography
An influential American modernist whose career was launched by Alfred Stieglitz, Marsden Hartley is best-known for his early German abstract paintings and southwestern landscapes and still lifes, as well as his late, emotionally evocative Maine scenes, all of which are considered valuable contributions to the modern art movement in America.
By Chelsea DeLay
I. Biography
II. Chronology
III. Collections
IV. Exhibitions
V. Memberships
VI. Notes
VII. Suggested Resources
I. Biography
In 1877, Edmund Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine, to English immigrant parents. When he was only
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