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Article: Hartley's Talent; Marsden Hartley's ability to paint in a variety of styles seems to have left his reputation in limbo, but he deserves mention as one of the great American artists.(ART)(Biography)
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- Insight on the News
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- July 22, 2003
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Byline: Stephen Goode, INSIGHT
In the more than four decades of his life as an artist, the American painter and poet Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) turned out works in an amazing array of styles. He could be representational or abstract. Some of his paintings are realistic or at least seem to be so, while others are mystical and sometimes occult. For a while, Cubism fascinated him and he painted (sort of) like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Some of his most striking canvases packed with bold, vigorous color and form Hartley did under the influence of fellow artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, whom he met and befriended in Europe.
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