Marsden Hartley's Maine
By: Donna M. Cassidy, Elizabeth Finch, Randall R. Griffey ; with contributions by Richard Deming, Isabelle Duvernois, Andrew Gelfand, Rachel Mustalish
Contributors: Finch, Elizabeth (Elizabeth J.), 1967- author; Griffey, Randall R., author; Deming, Richard, 1970- writer of added text; Duvernois, Isabelle, writer of added text; Gelfand, Andrew P., writer of added text; Mustalish, Rachel, writer of added text; Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Colby College. Museum of Art
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781588396136
Subjects: In art; Themes, motives; Exhibitions
Description: Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a well-traveled American modernist painter, poet, and essayist, but it is his life-long artistic engagement with his home state of Maine that defines his career. Maine served as a creative springboard, a locus of memory and longing, a refuge, and a means of communion with other artists, such as Winslow Homer, who painted there. This is the first book to look at the artist's complex relationship with the Pine Tree State, providing a nuanced understanding of Hartley's impressive range in over 80 works, from the early Post-Impressionist interpretations of seasonal change to the late depictions of Mount Katahdin, the most dramatic and enduring series in his oeuvre. Exhibition: The Met Breuer, New York, USA (14.03-18.06.2017); Colby College Museum, Waterville, USA (18.07-12.11.2017).
Notes: "This catalogue is published in conjunction with "Marsden Hartley's Maine, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 15 through June 18, 2017, and at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, from July 8 through November 12, 2017"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-179) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: Marsend Hartley's Maine  -- Donna M. Cassidy, Elizabeth Finch, Randall R. Griffey; title: Becoming 'an American individualist" :; title: the early work of Marsden Hartley  -- Elizabeth Finch; title: The local as cosmopolitan :; title: Marsden Hartley's transnational Maine  -- Donna M. Cassidy; title: An ambivalent prodigal :; title: Marsden Hartley as "the painter from Maine"  -- Randall R. Griffey; title: Hartley and his poetry  -- Richard Deming; title: "The livingness of appearances" :; title: materials and techniques of Marsden Hartley in Maine -- Isabelle Duvernois, Rachel Mustalish.