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Article: Hartley's indicative objects: a recent exhibition spotlighted the still lifes of Marsden Hartley, finding in them a metaphorical complexity and emotional range to rival that of his better known landscapes and abstractions.
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- Art in America
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- November 1, 2003
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We know him best for the groundbreaking abstractions done in Berlin in 1914 and '15, and the flinty Maine and Nova Scotia landscapes, as well as the figure paintings done near the end of his career. Because of this prodigious outpouring of images of New Mexico, Bavaria, Provence, New England and the Maritimes, he is considered a painter of the outdoors with fervent affinities for the spirit of those places. However, Marsden Hartley was essentially a studio artist. He made drawings on site but did not, as a rule, paint outside, working instead from studies and recollected feelings, often in a different location altogether. (The "New Mexico Recollection" paintings done in ...
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Article: Marsden Hartley expert to deliver USM address
Portland Press Herald (Maine);
November 5, 2006 ;
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... ... Press Herald (Maine) 11-05-2006 Marsden Hartley expert to deliver USM address Byline ... Dispatches Donna Cassidy, author of "Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation," will ... Maine on "Making Geography Trivial: Marsden Hartley, Provence, and Transatlantic Modernism ...
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