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Marsden Hartley
[American Painter, 1877-1943]
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Marsden Hartley Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Marsden Hartley available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Abstraction, ca.1914
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri Himmel, ca.1914-15 (Zoom)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri Down East Young Blades, ca.1940
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Marsden Hartley at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. 8 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Self-Portrait as a Draughtsman, drawing
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California Cascade of Devotion - Mexico
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) After the Storm, Vinalhaven, 1938-39
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) Still Life: Peaches and One Pomegranate, graphite, 1927
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City (Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts Rocks, Dogtown, 1930s
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine Brilliant Autumn, Landscape #28, 1930
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Berlin Abstraction
Crocker Art Museum, California Fisherman's Family
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas A new museum which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public Hall of the Mountain King, ca.1908-09
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire 2 works online
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma Shell and Sea, Anemones, Gloucester
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Grey Gull, 1940-41
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri Backwaters Up Millinocket Way, 1939-40
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia (Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York Waterfall, Morse Pond
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe El Santo
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Indian Fantasy, 1914
Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University New Mexico Landscape, ca.1920-23
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Museum of Art, Maine Click thumbnail #5 for New Mexico
Portland Museum of Art, Maine Click thumbnail #6 for Surf on Reef
Portland Museum of Art, Maine Kinsman Falls, 1930
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida Shell
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California Still Life, ca.1929-30
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska 6 paintings online
Tacoma Art Museum, Washington A couple of images from a 2005 exhibition
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW! 3 works online
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey Still Life - Calla Lilies, 1920s
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW! (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City E, 1915
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada Star Fish and Shells, 1936
University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford Duck & Robin
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut Military
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Still Life, 1912 (click "next" a couple of times)
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Marsden Hartley at The Artchive
Marsden Hartley at The Athenaeum 15 works online
California State University WorldImages Database
Marsden Hartley at CGFA
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
University of Michigan Fine Art Slides Chanties to the North
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
ArtsNet Minnesota Portrait, ca.1914-15
ArtsNet Minnesota Storm Clouds, Maine, 1906-07
Cleophas and His Own: A North Atlantic Tragedy, by Marsden Hartley Website for a film inspired by Hartley's prose poem
Repository of Abstract Art New Mexico Recollections, No.12, 1922-23
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Marsden Hartley  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Art + Auction Magazine Painting No. 3, 1913
Artcyclopedia "The Return of the Native"
Resource Library Magazine Marsden Hartley: American Modern
Resource Library Magazine
Resource Library Magazine Marsden Hartley at the Weatherspoon Art Gallery
The New York Observer "Marsden Hartley Was One of a Kind, Poet and Painter", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer "Praising Marsden Hartley, Great American Painter", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker "The Searcher", 2003 article by Peter Schjeldahl
The Village Voice "The X Factor", 1998 article by Peter Schjeldahl (via Artnet)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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 Somehow a Past: The Autobiography of Marsden Hartley
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 Seeking the Spiritual: The Paintings of Marsden Hartley
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