Article: Hartley's harsh art; Found beauty in in his pain.(ARTS)(ART)

Byline: Joanna Shaw-Eagle, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Marsden Hartley called himself "the painter from Maine." Yet he spent most of his life traveling geographically and artistically to Paris, Berlin, New York, the American Southwest and Mexico before returning, late in life, to his native soil.

Perhaps the peripatetic Hartley should have stayed put more. He didn't gain critical recognition and monetary rewards until just before his death in 1943, and part of the reason success eluded him for so long might be that he proved such an elusive figure.

The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., has organized a powerful overview of Hartley's tough, ...

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