Thursday, January 29, 2026

Marsden Hartley

Richard Tweedy
Marsden Hartley
1898
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC


Marsden Hartley
Painting no. 47, Berlin
1914-15
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
Pitcher and Dipper
ca. 1918-21
oil on board
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
Window, New Mexico
1919
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
Still Life
ca. 1920
oil on board
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
Landscape and Mountains
1922-23
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
Landscape, New Mexico
1922-23
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Emil Otto Hoppé
Marsden Hartley
ca. 1926
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
Two Shells
1928
oil on canvas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
Popocatepetl, Spirited Morning, Mexico
1932
oil on board
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
Still Life
1932-33
oil on board
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
ca. 1933
pastel on paper
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
End of Storm, Vinalhaven, Maine
1937-38
oil on board
Reynolda House Museum of American Art,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Marsden Hartley
Christ held by Half-Naked Men
1940-41
oil on board
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
Canuck Yankee Lumberjack
at Old Orchard Beach, Maine 

1940-41
oil on board
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Marsden Hartley
Crow with Ribbons
1941-42
oil on board
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Arbit Blatas
Marsden Hartley
1943
oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC


At 12 o'clock in the afternoon
    in the middle of the street 
        Alexis.

Summer had all but brought the fruit
    to its perilous end:
        & the summer sun & that boy's look

did their work on me.
    Night hid the sun.
        Your face consumes my dreams.

Others feel sleep as feathered rest;
    mine but in flame refigures
        your image lit in me.

– Meleager (140-70 BC), translated by Peter Whigham (1975)